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Sure, if you want to be dumb like that sure
Oh wait, but he's kept 27 promises in those 100 days as well, so we can also expect 378 promises kept
Out of 503 total promises made, that's a rate of 75% pass rate
And, as Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame so wisely noted, if government was 75% successful we'd be ecstatic
So I'm pretty ecstatic, how about you, Obs
To day 19.
Getting this recognition is hard (then again, genocide isn't exactly a non-controversial issue). My history is a little rusty, but I think the move to recognition basically began in earnest in 1965, with a gigantic protest of Armenians within the Armenian SSR (yes, that SSR).
Two years later, the Soviet government finished the Tsitsernakaberd Monument it had commissioned to the genocide, which is still a rallying point for the cause of recognition of what happened. In addressing that specific issue, if recognition in Ankara is too much, how about voicing recognition in Yerevan, right on the monument? Though knowing conservatives, they'd probably start screeching about his willingness to step foot on a Soviet-built monument.
People are already accusing Obama of being a socialist--then he pulls a move straight out of Soviet national delimination realpolitik? That shit won't fly, I'd say.
Not a bad idea though, given the situation in Iraq.
He just did last month.
Well of course the "Kurds" aren't getting their own homeland, theres no such thing. They are just mountain Turks, see? Yeah.. thats the ticket.
Seriously though, we should be thanking our lucky stars the Kurds still don't want to kill the fuck out of us, despite having been fucked over pretty consistently by western powers for oh, at least the last 100 years or so.
Also, no 'Stans in there. Just Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Well, the guilt trip might not work. When the Armenian SSR turned into the Republic of Armenia, the Kurds lost their status as a protected national minority (not to mention their state-sponsored newspapers, radio stations, schools, cultural events, etc.). I could be mistaken, but it didn't take long for many Kurds to come to the conclusion "Crap, we've got from being in a really big country that mostly tolerated us to a small country that--and keep this on the down low--possibly hates us."
It might not be a good idea for Pres. Obama to tie the Kurdish issue with the Armenian one, since the Kurds have been the losers of the new country (people don't just flee to Russia for the weather). That being said, if Kurds and Armenians could expand on their common ground, and overlook the natural mistakes of a new country, they really could pressure Turkey with a common front. Of course, that would definitely piss off Ankara, and that would probably guarantee Obama's silence on the issue.
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Him saying that would kinda piss off both Turkey (insulting them in their own capital) and the EU (specifically the Germans and the French who have always been suspicious of the US trying to push new members into their club to serve american goals). When you're trying to build a consensus to deal with the Financial crisis its best not to annoy people unless you have too.
Besides the EU problem has never been the Turkish government not admitting the massacre per se, but rather their imprisonment of those who do for 'insulting turkishness', if they move towards free speach without offically saying it was genocide the EU would probably be cool with it (though they still wouldn't let them in for a multitude of other reasons).
If he ever ends up in Armenia that would be a much better time to talk about this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HEzeeRT5_0&feature=player_embedded
Shouldn't have brought it up in the first place then
Honestly I'm kinda pissed at the O-Man about this. Really, don't bring up the Armenian genocide, talk about how insulting it is that a "civilised" country is ignoring the atrocities they've committed, then sorta...pussy out when you have the prime opportunity to bring it up
Yeah yeah, I know, realpolitiking, but I'd much rather prefer if Obama was more pragmatic about the whole situation then what his actual response was
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
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They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Did he show up hammered already looking for his ex girlfriend?
Gibbs seemed kinda dumbstruck by it all.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Generally Im happy, except for his appointing a bunch of MAFIAA people.
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Haha no way? That's awesome.
But he didn't find his ex girlfriend?
Hey.. hey! Thomas! You BITCH! Let's work it out!
Did he crash through the wall like a superhero?
This doesn't have the Hulk-style enterance, but it's him reading the notes;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfyiGwGIXqY&feature=player_embedded
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Dude, I was just watching The American President last night too. I think Obama has the best chance to deliver some awesome speech like that off the cuff. We just have to find something to make him angry enough to go off like that.
This is crazy.
Edit: Oh sweet Jebus, it's a year old. Zombie hologram Obama.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I, too, am taken aback by your apparent conviction that the next 1300 days of his presidency will be absolutely identical to the first 100, at least in terms of how many promises he will keep/break. Do you think he has like a weekly quota for those? Or did you just decide to bang your head repeatedly against a wall before you posted every single one of your posts in this thread?
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