During the presidential campaign, when Barak Obama was looking for easy votes, he had this to say about an event that most Americans are completely unaware:

As a candidate, Obama was perfectly clear. "The facts are undeniable," he said in a January 2008 statement. He called the massacre not an allegation or matter of opinion--many Turks maintain that the killing resulted from anarchy accompanying the Ottoman Empire's collapse--but a clear exercise in race-based killing: "As president," he vowed, "I will recognize the Armenian genocide." Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, who said America's "morality" and "credibility" demanded such a statement, agreed. And why not? Last year, all were presidential candidates looking for easy ways to sound bold and noble, not to mention courting Armenian-American votes and money.

Interestingly, there are some Americans of Armenian heritage who literally loath the Turks, and who have family members who died at the hands of the Turks, But today, in Turkey, Obama reneged on the genocide conclusion and refered to it as merely a "view".  Here is what Obama said today:

"…what I want to do is not focus on my views right now but focus on the views of the Turkish and the Armenian people," the president said. "If they can move forward and deal with a difficult and tragic history, then I think the entire world should encourage them."


If you are Armenian, you can consider yourself officially sold out.