It is not always politics even if you are at the helm of one of the most influential nations in the domain of international politics. For Barack Obama, the former President of United States of America, it was much more and beyond. His latest memoir, A Promised Land, is undoubtedly a collector’s delight for those who wish to understand or get a glimpse of the personal side of this tall personality, who made the entire world look at American polity differently.
Through high school, Obama and his friends did not discuss much beyond sports, girls, music, and plans for getting loaded. Three of them — Bobby Titcomb, Greg Orme, and Mike Ramos — are some of his closest friends.
With few exceptions, everything Obama observed about politicians seemed dubious: The blow-dried hair, the wolfish grins, the bromides and self-peddling on TV while behind closed doors they curried the favour of corporations and other moneyed interests. He writes, “They were actors in a rigged game, I decided, and I wanted no part of it.”
When comes about his better half ,Michelle Lavaughn Robinson was tall, beautiful, funny, outgoing, generous, and wickedly smart — and he was smitten the second he saw her. Assigned by the firm to look out for him, to make sure Obama knew where the office photocopier was, and that he generally felt welcome.
