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3/5/2010

Obama’s Turkey Trot

Filed under: International,Obama — DRJ @ 7:42 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

As a Presidential candidate, Barack Obama vowed to recognize the murder of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during World War I as genocide. This week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee did just that:

“The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the resolution in an extremely close 23-22 vote, which could send the measure to the House floor.

The resolution would recognize the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during World War I as genocide.”

Now that he’s President, however, Obama isn’t as willing to speak truth to power:

“The White House came out against the resolution, warning it could upend the delicate process of normalizing relations between Turkey and Armenia.

President Barack Obama said during the 2008 presidential campaign that he would recognize the killiings as genocide, but has avoided the term since his election and did not use it during a trip to Turkey.

Despite the White House opposition, Democrats on the committee moved forward. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) cast the deciding vote after returning from a White House meeting on healthcare.

Chairman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) pledged to press ahead for a floor vote.

“At some point, all nations must come to grips with their own history and that’s all we ask of Turkey,” Berman said.”

The Democratic sponsor of the resolution said the next step depends on whether they can find the votes.

— DRJ

19 Responses to “Obama’s Turkey Trot”

  1. Another day, another Obama lie. Yawn.

    Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (9eb641)

  2. First chicken, now Turkey? It’s never good to post while hungry. Just sayin’ 😉

    Stashiu3 (44da70)

  3. You know me too well, Stashiu3.

    DRJ (daa62a)

  4. Obama’s such a jellyfish. It’s annoying.

    Leviticus (30ac20)

  5. He’s not a jellyfish, Leviticus. He’s committed, manipulative and willing to take contradictory positions when they benefit him. A lot of people and politicians do that, but the media enables Obama so he sees no downside.

    DRJ (daa62a)

  6. Comment by DRJ — 3/5/2010 @ 8:33 pm

    What’s worse than a narcissist wedded to an enabler?

    I can’t think of a punchline.

    John Hitchcock (8f46db)

  7. Personally, after the perfidy committed by Turkey in refusing transit to the 3rd-ID in 2003, they deserve everything that befalls to them.

    As to Obowman, it is much easier to keep track of the promises that he keeps (I don’t think I’ve used up one hand yet).

    AD - RtR/OS! (abf357)

  8. Normally, I would be opposed to sticking a thumb in the eye of an ally, but Turkey hasn’t been all that much of an ally of late. Maybe this is a good time to get the Armenian atrocity out in the open. If Turkey ever gets beyond its current islamisist phase, the Armenian thing will have already been put behind us.

    Anon Y. Mous (c7c953)

  9. I wanna see Every single Republican vote yes on this one. They need to freaking OWN it.

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8)

  10. Turkey hasn’t been all that much of an ally of late ever

    Fixed that for you…

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8)

  11. Turkey was an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” and the key to the Dardanelles straits during the Cold War….

    now they are an incipient islamic state, just as likely a problem as a lukewarm ally.

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  12. “Jellyfish”?

    “Spineless bimbo,” more like

    Icy Texan (8ce5cc)

  13. They’ve come a long way since the days of their founding father Ataturk. The wrong way, unfortunately. The fly – over denial made them a fairly inane and feckless NATO ally, even worse than the French. Even worse is the penetration of rabid Islamicists within their military.

    Dmac (ca1d8c)

  14. …after the perfidy committed by Turkey in refusing transit to the 3rd-ID in 2003, they deserve everything that befalls to them.

    Something worth considering is removing Turkey from participation in the F-35 program and returning any money contributed.

    Blacque Jacques Shellacque (5ef35b)

  15. Why are US legislators spending any time at all on a foreign issue regarding something that occurred long ago? Just how is that helping with the mile long list of critical problems facing US citizens? Isn’t their a healthcare bill to be worked on or destroyed? An economy on the brink? An ongoing debt creation debacle? Wars and rumors of wars abounding? This belongs in the court of public opinion, not on any US legislative calendar.

    Hindsight too often leaves one staring at a butt crack.

    political agnostic (5c49a5)

  16. and returning any money contributed.

    Eff that. What are they gonna do, refuse to let troop transports fly through their airspace?

    Eff Turkey, Eff them in the ear. They want their money back, they can go pound sand.

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8)

  17. The internal political devolution of Turkey is extremely disturbing. It may be stretching an analogy too far to say Ataturk was the Islamic Martin Luther, but granted such a conceit, what is going on today in Turkey is more evidence of an worldwide Islamic counter-reformation.

    Brad (b4e329)

  18. Remember Obama’s visit to Turkey last April? Rather than use the word genocide and blame Muslims for their atrocities, he blamed Americans for killing Indians, saying, “Our country still struggles with the legacy of our past treatment of native Americans.” The Armenian National Committee of America responded that Obama fell “far short of the clear promise he made as a candidate that he would, as president, fully and unequivocally recognize this crime against humanity.”

    Read The Obama Timeline – the most complete history of the thug-in-chief.

    Colony14Author (aab542)

  19. Obama just threw Sheila Jackson Lee under the bus; she was the co-sponsor of this resolution.

    From the Frenso Beehive: “Profile in Political Cowardice for Thursday’s committee vote must go to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, a Democrat who has co-sponsored the genocide resolution.
    Jackson Lee stood in the wings Thursday as the vote was called; she was there as the committee chairman asked if anyone else wished to vote. Instead, she ducked back into a back room.”

    Yvonne (ca2a08)


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