CNN Slams Obama for Breaking Armenian Genocide Pledge

On April 24, 2014, CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper reports on President Obama's dramatic retreat from his pledge - for the sixth year in a row - to properly characterize the murder of 1.5 million Armenians as 'genocide.'

Using video of then Senator Obama, shared by the ANCA, and Samantha Power's campaign pitch for the President in 2008, Tapper concludes that the facts once characterized by Obama as undeniable, are in fact, for the President "quite deniable."

Read Tapper's full blog, which includes the ANCA's reaction to President Obama's statement at:

[ivanavila]

It's a Genocide and I'm getting a Armenian cross tattooed on my forearm in memory of my fellow Armenian Christian...love to Armenia from Mexico.

[torbjornkallstrom]

Politicians breaking promises... Who'd have thought?

[personaldove]

Much love and gratitude to Samantha Power though.
As an ambassador she has done so much to raise awareness and contribute to the Armenian genocide recognition than anyone I have ever seen..

[yanaym]

I AM SO HAPPY THE CNN DID THIS.
THANK YOU

[Alex_Karas]

PATHETIC. A genocide is a genocide Mr president.

[alexanderleatherman]

I dont see why he is being such a..
Ughh. If you do not call a crime by its name its truth is lost.

[lyudmillastepanian]

THE TRUTH ONCE RECOGNIZED CAN'T BE LOST!!! THANK YOU

[HBARDHI]

The word "Genocide" was named  first by Polish civil rights lawyer; Raphael Lemkin referring to Armenian's mass massacres by Ottoman Turks. Turkey does NOT allow this fact to be taught to their youth. They have this "law" article 301, that anyone bringing up the subject of #TheArmenianGenocide   they are thrown in jail accusing the person with insulting "Turkishness". Turkey is notorious with it's human rights abuses.

[DrSylva]

The politics doesn't allow him to say
what he wished to say...
"Politics play and people pay" my poetry collection 2009

[tsach_synths]

It doesnt matter, it still happened, and it is so undeniable i sometimes laugh. People around me ask, "what is the genocide" and i get upset. But, i live with pride knowing that the Ottoman Empire failed to annihlate the Armenian Race. "Turkey run, Turkey hide, Turkeys guilty of what??? genocide." Remember the fallen everybody. մենք երբեք չենք մոռանա, թե ինչ է տեղի ունեցել, բայց մենք միասին կանգնել, ինչ ճիշտ է, շատ սիրում է բոլոր հայերին աշխարհում!

[VardazaryanHayk]

I wonder if this video producer is still alive... ?

[marinamkrtchyan]

Shameless coward since 2008. Once a coward always a coward.

[kentbummerm]

His top aide said that they are 'too worried about upsetting Turkey' - are you fcking kidding me?

[zvoyarakel]

shame shame shame ! all i have to say to this . and also thanks for the change you promised ! SHAMEE

[craigmarkarian]

Dear "Mehri Aslanova": Artsakh's (Nagorno Karabagh) struggle for freedom from years of Azer repression was just that: a call for freedom. Had the Azeris treated their Armenian subjects fairly and justly from Stalins' time (Stalin was the culprit who unjustly "gave" the region, who's Armenian population at the time was 90%, to Azerbaijan)  Artsakh would most probably still be part of Azerbaijan. However, the Azeris unleashed pogroms against Armenians in Sumgait, Kirovakan and Baku in 1988 killing hundreds (chess champion Gary Kasparov's mother had to flee Baku for fear of being killed by the Azeri mobs), and THAT'S how the conflict began. Armenians were peacefully protesting up to that point. The Armenians, after experiencing the great loss of their native lands like Western Armenia to Turkey, Nakhichevan to Azerbaijan, realized then in 1988 that the only people who'd save them were themselves. Thus, the "conflict" of Nagorno Karabagh was really a matter of self-defence, of life and death and of the survival of the Armenian nation as a whole. That also explains why the Armenians of Artsakh (your statement that Armenia was the agressor is incorrect: these were NATIVE Armenians of Artsakh who were suffering daily GRAD missile attacks by the Azeris) won the war: it was a matter of life and death. Not so for the Azeris, who were only 20% of the population at the time. Get your history right!

[ItsMaddy]

Some people change, some people dont.

[rufu]

It's a shame to have a president like this

[СергейЧарухчян]

 Я считаю в вопросе признания Геноцида Армян господин Обама повел себя обсалютно неправильно и более того можно сказать позорно поскольку во время своей предвыборной компании господин Обама обещал признать Геноцид но уже после избрания на пост президента США забыл о своих обещаниях.

[oktayhamza]

An honorable director have to shoot a film that is about Armenian Genocide. Every people should know this massacre

[jagmd]

If you want to make news, why don't you do a story on a campaign promise that he kept.  There are far, far fewer of those than the ones he has broken.