05 11 2008 - Will Barack OBAMA hold really its promise?

by Jean Eckian
Will the support without precedent of the Armenian community of the United States, filled with enthusiasm by the repeated declarations of the candidate to the American presidential nomination pay? We would be once again in right to believe it. ? Did it employ the double language knowingly with an aim of securing the Armenian voices fully, knowing that it will be inevitably caught up with by the real politik? Perhaps… or perhaps not. The months which will follow nomination of the 44th US president us will say it.
It is true that the former senator of Ilinois hammered during the presidential campaign, that in the name of the United States and of the human rights, the Armenian Genocide was to be recognized and recalled by the Congress and the President of the United States. That precisely he had written itself by twice in George W. Bush to invite it to refer expressly to the Armenian genocide at the time of the commemorative ceremonies. That in addition, Armenia must profit from the American assistance to reinforce its democracy and to help to seek a durable exit in the conflict of High Karabakh. And that finally it was necessary to put a term at the blockades Turco-Azeri. Of which act.
For the Armenians, the proverb « Once bitten, twice shy », has been however, more than ever of topicality, so much the recognition of the Genocide suffered by the Armenian people in 1915 is a recurring question in the USA for more than twenty years with the not held promises of Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush junior.
Let us preserve despite everything the hope of a positive exit of the Armenian questions supported by the Obama-Biden ticket which, according to a majority of American analysts, would be the most laid out to cross the border of the official recognition of the Armenian genocide. The more so as the insurance of this recognition was formulated, in a convincing way, on several occasions with the persons in charge of the Armenian National council of America (ANCA). Will American dream generate the Armenian dream? In more than one connection, the year 2009 will be historical. Answer on April 24.
In the light of Lincoln
Next on February 2, Barack Obama will have immense honor to celebrate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. A sign of the destiny for that which, descendant of a black father, will return honor to the US president which émancipated slaves by his Proclamation of 1863. Moreover and in parallel with the career of Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama was used 8 years in Illinois's Senat, like Lincoln.

by Jean Eckian