THE SALT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir
Jan 22 2008
Armenia
Now it is clear that if the other Democrat or Republican candidates to
U.S. president do not pledge to recognize the genocide of Armenians
better or more, and help return historical Armenia through the
U.S. force, Barack Obama, one of the Democrat candidates, will be
elected president of the United States. Historically, those are
elected U.S. president who pledge the recognition of the Armenian
genocide. They become president not to honor their pledge and to give
the Armenian community a new impetus for activity – the next U.S.
presidential election. Otherwise, the Armenian community, which is
believed to be the best-organized community in the world, may run
into a deadlock if a U.S. president recognizes the genocide. What
will be next? This question is enough to destroy the solid Armenian
community due to the absence of another unifying goal.
Therefore, the U.S. presidential elections, at least over the past
two or three decades, have solved the question of existence of the
Armenian community, and after every April 24 we breathe with relief
that the word genocide was not uttered this year too, or this year
too the Congress disappointed us, which means that life goes on.
There is no need to have an exceptional mind to understand that Obama
will forget about his promise as soon as he is elected. It is not
that Obama is not honest, like they may think about Clinton, Bush,
anyone else, or the Armenian community is too ingenuous to understand
the falsehood of all those election devices. Perhaps everything is
much clearer. The Armenian issue has become part of the American
political tradition. In this case, the question occurs why not all
the candidates use it. Perhaps because the tradition requires that.
Only one becomes president, consequently only one must use the issue of
the genocide of Armenians. If everyone used it, the Armenian community
would realize it is being mocked at.
Meanwhile, the Armenian community of America should not be mocked at.
It may cost major financial consequences to the daredevils, if not
an entire political party. Therefore, everything should be within the
limits, and this time Barack Obama took the limit, who has excited the
Armenian community because the Armenians worldwide and in Armenia were
waiting impatiently when one of the candidates would state to recognize
the Armenian genocide. At last, the U.S. Presidential Election 2008
acquired a meaning for the Armenians, imparting the post-election
period with a meaning as well, when we will be watching Obama not
to recognize the genocide suddenly and violate the tradition. Like
in the joke in which the old father gives his sons brooms and asks
them to break them. The father wants to explain them that if they
keep together, nobody will be able to defeat them, like a broom,
which cannot be broken easily unless you separate the branches. One
of the sons takes the broom and breaks it without any difficulty. The
father sighs: "How shall I teach anything to this fool?"
Let us hope that Obama will not break the broom and disrupt the even
course of history. Everything else is OK. The U.S. presidential
election is on the right track, the Armenians are happy, life is
beautiful, the Earth is round.