Just as you could imagine, Barack Obama, America's first black president had a lot to tell. Normally retired politicians, former presidents, and great men in high places end up writing the book of their future in those spaces of power. A kind of justification for their actions and decisions to be understood in the past, once freed from conditions, pressures and other circumstances. A full narrative euphemism for asking for forgiveness.
Barack Obama wanted to write something more personal, more typical of a vital testimony than a defense or account of his years in the White House.
The truth is that Obama has always been seen as a special guy. Beyond when it was time to frown to face opponents and compromising situations, Obama always walked about inches from the ground, with light feet, as if every problem was something easily overcome with will and determination.
It is not about trivializing the great dilemmas that Obama would go through, but about making them relative ...
I do not know to what extent the Americans would know the innermost part of their president. We all recognized the African-American with the convincing speech and fiery dialectic from the yes we can. Deep down I think the best way to convey something is to believe it. Obama launched that yes we can, when the world painted clubs because he himself had already escaped from other moments in which his life, in the same way, painted clubs in the past.
It is not uncommon for a politician of the age of Obama, with his brand-new and controversial Nobel Peace Prize, to write his biography practically ignoring the political and reaching the most human part. The soporific biographies of Aznar or González in our native case remain for readers of their tendency.
What Obama has done, on the contrary, is to delve into what brought him to the top, in that overcoming, almost sublimation of adversity. From resilience as the only vehicle to success, from the recognition of success as the result of that improvement. A perfect circle so that any politician could enter and exit politics as someone of integrity ...
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