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Change: From old Alabama to new Armenia, Obama’s win is our win

When, at 8:01 a.m. Wednesday in Yerevan, the television I’d been psychically tethered to all night announced that Barack Obama had been voted the next President of the United States, the image in my head replaced the broadcast on CNN with footage of a childhood that added relevance to the vast historicity of the moment.

Tow-headed and not yet mindful that a world existed outside the narrow one in which I toddled, I stood on a stool in an Alabama public square to drink from one of two water fountains. Turns out that the one I’d chosen for refreshment from the summer heat was marked “Colored”. Had I known, I’d have stepped to the “Whites Only” bubbler. Children don’t know. Bless them.

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12.11.2008 14:47
Turkey did shoot a lot of wad in 2007 by bring her guns into position against US (Congress) Today, Turkey is just looking for new ways -or is trying to implement a program e.g. by doing some cosmetic changes in its foreign policy - which will allow/permit Turkey to portray Armenian Americans (Diaspora) as “enemy” of Armenia in front of international community… For this perpose Turkey maight even be ready to open a "window (gate)" to Armenia still before April 24
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12.11.2008 05:36
Lae's see if Obama will keep his promise regarding the Genocide or the Armenian people will be fooled again
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11.11.2008 22:53
It is again time for Turkey to organize some "foot shootings“ with Armenian clerics and Armenian politicians for international media and members of US congress to demonstrate “Turkish and Armenians are happy and they have made peace” ...
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10.11.2008 16:38
at least the new Turkish "Enver Pasha" is willing to speak about the truth and real intention of "deportation" http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=202472 "Would Turkey be a nation state if the Greeks had stayed in the Aegean region and Armenians had stayed in several parts of Turkey?," Gonul was quoted by state Anatolian news agency as saying at the Turkish embassy in Brussels on Monday. "I do not know which words to use to explain the importance of this population exchange but if you look at the old (population) balances, its importance will be seen very clearly," he said, adding Ankara was made up of Jews, Muslims, Armenians and Greeks before the republic was founded.
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09.11.2008 18:38
24 April is in 6 months but still Turkey has started to create panic above all within the new team of Obama... Armenian Americans should remain very resolute, constructive but in the same time we should adopt the slogan: “No to Turkish Racism, Stop Turkish Denial which is nothing but Racism” “White men” in US could learn form Turkey and argue: there were no slavery but “some people had to do some “hard work” without being paid… and call for a “historian commission” to proof the slavery and the existence of “native Americans”! It would be wrong and naive to believe Turkish politicians like Gul, Erdogan or CHP politicians and others in Ankara are much different than Talaat Pasha! Politicians like Gul might change there rhetoric and try different tricks but his (Gul´s) main task and goal will remain to justify the criminal actions of Talaat Pasha! Turkish Archives: Turkey is not getting tiered to announce “our archives our open” but in the same time important files regarding murder of just a single Armenian.,Hrant Dink, being regarded “state secret” by responsible Turkish officials in Ankara.. 1,500 000 Armenians had been killed by gangs like “Ergenekon” as Hrant Dinks is being killed and “Turkish archives” are in the same available for historians as “secret files2 regarding Hrant Dink are available for his lower! PS: last month Turkey managed without problem to extend the law on boarder operation into Iraq for another year by using a well organized and manipulated (stage-manage, “Kurdish attack” on Turkish solders. (Apparently Turkish military were full aware of planed attacks of Kurdish rebels, allowing to kil Turkish solders!!!). Nobody should be surprise if Turkey itself selling American made weapons to PKK rebels and late use “confiscated weapons” to blackmail Americans! We have to deal with a Turkey which does almost everything to justify a genocide!
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09.11.2008 04:15
I think the sheeple better wake up and realize that there are no substantive difference between Republican and Democrat. Similarly, there are no real elections in the US. As much as I hate Bush and company (including McCain and Pain) I am getting sick to my stomach over Obama worship. In real political terms, Obama will prove to be just as bad if not worst than Bush and his Neocon criminals. Obama was not elected, he was "chosen" to replace the failed neocons in Washington. The agenda of the empire needed a new face to move forward. Obama is that new face. Obama is not even president yet and look at who is already behind him - foreign policy maker Zbigniew Brzezinski, an American imperialist and an ardent Russophobe and Rohm Emanuel - a fervent Zionist. Wake up Americans and realize that you don't live in a democracy...
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08.11.2008 04:05
Congratulations on your new President. Everybody would like a president like Mr Obama and we can only hope that something similar happens one day in Armenia - when the people can actually respect their leaders instead of looking away in shame. If only there were a "Mr Obamian" in Armenia, so that Armenians could feel proud of their country's government in the same way that Americans at long last can now experience! "It's been a long time coming" - but maybe Armenia's turn will be next to produce a Mr Obamian. Let's hope so.
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07.11.2008 04:19
Thank you, Janig, for your comments...and my blessing to you and your wife and elegant family, Serov, George
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06.11.2008 23:29
Nicely done John. Think in our lifetime of how many things people said couldn't be done. "Communism will never change". "Racism will always exist". "Homosexuals are unnatural", etc etc. Whether Obama is a good president or not his election embodies the possibility of a better world. When Armenians say "vochinch" in the face of corruption and injustice you can say that nothing has to remain that way. Congratulations to you for the new wife and family.
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06.11.2008 23:08
John, You have drawn a great parallel between what happened in US and what can happen in Armenia. Obama's Election in US sends a great message of hope to the rest of the world. In my view, Obama will be the greatest peace maker ever known, he will end the wars, and he will promote democracy in its truest form across the globe.
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