Let Freedom Ring

This has been Obama Day without any exaggeration or doubt.
My take from the inauguration proceedings:
To tell you the truth I feel I am tasting the freedom from "slavery" (ghulami) for the first time. No doubt that emancipation from racialism has been the theme all day and in all probability will continue for some time, but for me it feels as if the "White Superiority" has just been eclipsed by Baarak Hussain Obama. I feel that even though the English left us in 1947 (Partition of India) but I (and perhaps a lot of Pakistani leaders if not all) have been afflicted with "mental slavery"(zehni ghulami aur ghulamana zehniyat) uptil now and Obama has been instrumental to bring me out of it today. I feel really free at last, my brain has finally, it seeme, yanked off its colonialism cloak. I clearly remember when I first arrived inEngland from Pakistan and talked with the English "consultants" (whether in my interviews for a junior hospital job or during my work) how much I was overawed by the white skin and the language. It did take me a long time before I acquired some self confidence. ( I am somewhat ashamed of admitting my weakness; it is human after all and I grew up under the British Raaj)
That was one awesome speech of the 44th president of the USA and even though media keep emphasizing on "We will defeat you" but his eloquence was more detectable when he said, " we will extend our hand to all as long as they would open their fist".
Likwewise in the benediction you noticed saying, " the tanks would be replaced by tractors" or something like that.
There is a feeling of change of the attitude which may trickle down from the "brass" to the "bottom" and I do hope and pray for that, because that is what will bring the whole world the sorely needed peace, tractors, not the tanks. America is a great country not because of its affluent habbits, not for its fire power, not for its proud possessions but because of the fortitude and fearless struggling bent of its people. Just look at the milestones of these people only in the twentieth century.