“Eager to impress” but lacks aptitude, Obama on Rahul Gandhi

in his newly published political memoir "A Promised Land",former US president Barack Obama  has drawn sketches of several leaders of the US and other nations. The book has mention of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and former Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.The New York Times published the review of his book  “A Promised Land”, which is set for public release next week.

According to review, Obama found Congress MP Rahul Gandhi “eager to impress” but lacking “aptitude or the passion” to master the subject. The former president wrote Rahul Gandhi — they met at least twice — in 2015 and 2017 — has “a nervous, unformed quality about him, as if he were a student who’d done the coursework and was eager to impress the teacher but deep down lacked either the aptitude or the passion to master the subject”.

The former president appeared to write glowingly about Sonia Gandhi but there were no direct quotes from the book in the review.  The former president writes approvingly about former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was Obama’s first state guest at the White House, and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi,Obama wrote: “Secretary of Defense Bob Gates and the Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh both come across as having a kind of impassive integrity.”

The New York Times review also quoted Obama's take on US President-elect Joe Biden."Joe Biden is a decent, honest, loyal man who Obama senses 'might get prickly if he thought he wasn't given his due - a quality that might flare up when dealing with a much younger boss'," the NYT Article read. "Vladimir Putin reminds him of the tough, street-smart ward bosses who used to run the Chicago machine. Also on Putin: "Physically, he was unremarkable'," the NYT article read.

About Hu Jintao, who was the President of China from 2003 to 2013, the NYT article read: "In a private meeting, Hu Jintao reads from stacks of prepared papers, so monotonous that Obama considers suggesting 'that we could save each other time by just exchanging papers and reading them at our leisure'." The former US president has written about a range of issues from his own early days in politics to the killing of Osama Bin Laden by a US SEAL team in Pakistan's Abbottabad.