The 44th President of United States

Tomorrow will see history being made as the world witness inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of United States. History will write about the first black president's inauguration, following in the footsteps of Washington, Lincoln and Kennedy. The inauguration day follows the day after Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Tomorrow Mr Obama will fulfill the dream Dr King dared to dream for the nation many years ago.

Millions will throng to the Capitol Hill to join in this historic event. The celebrations that started yesterday with the whole day of activities at the Lincoln Memorial will culminate after the swearing in ceremony.

Tomorrow Mr Obama will take oath which contains text that was set by the original Founding Fathers in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. This is the Affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.'

The celebration of tomorrow will die down soon enough and the reality of the task that lay ahead for President Obama will set in. The havoc created in the world economy by the collapse of financial institutions and the tottering banks is haunting the leaders all over world. Can President Obama lead his country and the world out of this economic nightmare is to be seen.

The people will have to wait and watch to see if their chosen president can fulfill the promises he has made.

World sat and watched

For some people in a part of world, the new year did not bring peace, instead it brought rockets falling on their homes and tanks thundering through the streets. Demonstrations followed in some cities, world leaders did not move, did not condemn or bring pressure to stop the Israeli tanks entering the Gaza.

Three weeks later more than a thousand killed, children, elder and the women. Several thousands injured and thousands who have no home to go back to, have lost several family members and an uneasy truce while the leaders try to communicate with each to bring about some form of peace process.

There are no winners on either side. The losers are the ordinary people who live in the shadow of Hamas on one side and the Israeli military on the other. Was it necessary for the Gaza to be devastated, it's people left homeless and shattered?