Former U.S. President Barack Obama recently spoke to a private conference on leadership in Singapore in which he said a lot of world leaders are “old men not getting out of the way” and that the world would be better off being led by women.
The BBC reports that Obama said in this speech, “If you look at the world and look at the problems, it’s usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way.” He explained, “It is important for political leaders to try and remind themselves that you are there to do a job, but you are not there for life, you are not there in order to prop up your own sense of self-importance or your own power.”
The BBC further reports that Obama said, “I’m absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything–living standards and outcomes.”
Barack Obama is generally hailed around the world as a great humanitarian and president of the USA. But not in here. And I think that’s deplorable and that it’s mostly because America still has a lot of white hatred toward African Americans. I know because I was born and reared in Seattle, a fairly cosmopolitan U.S. city, and lived forty years in the South, in metro-Houston, Texas. But it’s also because I traveled all over the USA for over thirty years as a PGA Tour professional golfer. At least sports helps bridge that racial gap.
I do think that if women generally ruled the world, we wouldn’t have nuclear weapons, which is the biggest problem in the world. Even though I’m for greener pastures regarding climate change, I don’t think that’s the world’s biggest problem yet. I place it second to nuclear weapons. I’m writing about this in my next book.
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