President Obama’s State of the Union address delivered at the conclusion of his eighth year in the Presidency was a marvel. His poise and confidence befitted the leader of the free world with a mastery of global view and balanced statements. Comparing this with our present political leaders who cannot deliver a public address except from written speeches or bits of paper stuffed in pockets like students pulling notes for copying from pockets which displays a demeaning process. The grasp of national and international affairs of President Obama was superb and bewitching as it was delivered extempore as if a message from his heart felt feelings.
Our leaders make bombastic speeches which have hollow promises never to be fulfilled and empty dreams with no reality in the mundane world. I wish we would have one leader of the vintage of Quaid-e-Azam to lift the hearts of people. As a student in Lahore I had the fortune of listening the speech of Quaid-e-Azam in the university ground in October 1947 which was heard with pin drop silence wherein people were moved by his words like “No power on Earth could destroy Pakistan”. Spoken in polished English language, people still understood it what he meant. President Obama reminded me of Quaid-e-Azam’s speech delivered on the creation of Pakistan.
DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore
