Another day, another promise broken:
It was presidential candidate Barack Obama who last fall loudly declared that "America deserves a president who speaks truthfully about the Armenian genocide" -- promising, "I will be that president."Lighten up Armenians, you're just another in the long line of people and group that Obama used simply for political expediency. You're in good company with luminaries like Rev. Wright, black farmers, Obama's grandmother and the American people to name but a few.
He even wrote then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice blasting the recall of an ambassador to Turkey who'd used the term "genocide" to describe the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire.
The Turks, not surprisingly, blame the deaths on fighting during World War I.
But, as candidate Obama wrote: "The occurrence of the Armenian genocide in 1915 is not an 'allegation,' a 'personal opinion' or a 'point of view.' Supported by overwhelming evidence, it is a widely documented fact."
Well, that was then.
Yesterday, President Obama released the annual White House statement for Armenian Remembrance Day, which commemorates the atrocity. And nowhere in that statement does the word "genocide" appear.
Who do you people think you are--important folks worth being faithful to like Bill Ayers and Tim Geithner?
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