Obama-Biden: The Better Team for Armenians, the Nation, and the World

[Anoush]

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Yes Yes Yes Obama!!!!!!!

Things are bound to get better... slowly but hopefully surely. What Bush demolished the state of this country I am hoping Obama will slowly mend it.

[MrHyeSev]

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Finally Obama won & Bush is out good ridens

[zeytuntsi]

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Yes, we can.

Yes, we did.

[AR MENIA]

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OBAMA REAFFIRMS PLEDGE TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

AZG Armenian Daily
05/11/2008

Armenian Genocide

ANCA welcomes latest Obama-Biden statement calling for strong
U.S.-Armenia relationship

With just days left to the crucial November 4th presidential
elections, the Obama-Biden campaign reaffirmed its commitment to
Armenian Genocide recognition and a strong U.S.-Armenia relationship,
reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).A statement
titled "Barack Obama: Supporting U.S.-Armenia Relations," relayed
to Armenians for Obama Chairman Areen Ibranossian earlier today as
well as the ANCA, affirms that "The Armenian Genocide, carried out by
the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, resulted in the deportation of
nearly 2 million Armenians, and approximately 1.5 million of those
deported were killed. Barack Obama believes we must recognize this
tragic reality and strongly supports a U.S.-Armenian relationship that
advances our common security and strengthens Armenian democracy." The
statement goes on to note "Barack Obama strongly supports passage
of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106 and S.Res.106) and
will recognize the Armenian Genocide.""The ANCA welcomes further
reaffirmation of Barack Obama's strong commitment to issues of concern
to the Armenian American community, including proper recognition of the
Armenian Genocide and fostering a strong U.S.-Armenia relationship,"
stated ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "ANCA chapters and
activists across the U.S. will continue, in these last days, to work
hard for the Obama-Biden ticket and the candidacies of the large
number of Senators and Representatives who have supported Armenian
American concerns."The Obama-Biden statement comes amid a flurry of
reports in the Turkish press regarding a meeting that supposedly took
place over the last several days between a senior Turkish official,
Ahmet Davutoglu, and a representative of the Obama-Biden Campaign,
after which Davutoglu called into question Obama's commitment to
this core human rights issue.Last week, the ANCA formalized its
longstanding support for Barack Obama with an official endorsement of
the Obama-Biden campaign for the Presidency of the United States. The
ANCA had first endorsed Sen. Obama in January, 2008, leading up to
the critical super-Tuesday primary elections.

http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg249283.html

[AR MENIA]

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Obama victory won’t affect U.S. policy toward Armenia
05.11.2008 17:19 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenians are interested in Barack Obama’s statements on the Armenian Genocide recognition, although as a part of election campaign, an Armenian political scientist said.

“Armenian Americans votes unanimously and dependently on the candidate’s position on the Armenian issue,” Alexander Iskandaryan, director of Caucasus Institute, told a news conference today.

“Election pledges and post-election policy are different things. So, Obama’s victory won’t affect the U.S. policy toward Armenia. The U.S. policy is first of all aimed to secure its own interests,” he said.

Democrat Barack Obama captured the White House on Tuesday after an extraordinary two-year election campaign, defeating Republican John McCain to make history as the first black U.S. President.

Obama won at least 338 Electoral College votes, far more than the 270 needed.

http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=27586

[AR MENIA]

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Sharon Wiener: Obama understands importance of Turkey as strategic ally and friend

05.11.2008 17:51 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The U.S. president-elect understands the importance of Turkey and the two countries would work together even more closely under the new administration, a high-level U.S. diplomat said.

"America cannot face the challenges alone and the next administration’s partnership with Turkey will continue in the fight against the PKK and other terrorists, in building a democratic, secure and stable Iraq, in finding new energy resources and routes of supply and in promoting peace in the Middle East and other regions," U.S. Consul General in Ankara Sharon Wiener said.

She said Barack Obama understands the importance of Turkey as a strategic ally and a friend, in a bid to soothe concerns that a possible problematic period lay ahead in the relations of the two countries due to the Democratic new president’s approach the Armenian Genocide.

"We will work together even more closely as Turkey has been elected to the United Nations Security Council," Wiener added, Hurriyet reports.

http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=27587

[Post_Blue]

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Obama won at least 338 Electoral College votes, far more than the 270 needed.

Out of curiousity who was the last president to get a higher amount of votes than this? (has anyone?)

[Mizzike]

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Out of curiousity who was the last president to get a higher amount of votes than this? (has anyone?)

...Bill Clinton in 1996. 378 electoral votes to Dole's 159. That's the most recent. Landslides of this sort are not much of an anomaly. Reagan, 525 electoral votes in 1984, 470-something in 1980. Nixon got 520 in '72. LBJ 486 in '64...on and on, if you keep going back, most victors throughout the 20th century, or at least a vast majority, won in landslides.