article_snippet.sent: And it's also the seventh year in a row Obama has broken Obama promise to use the word "genocide" to describe the atrocity.
article_snippet.sent: On the 2008 campaign trail, Obama promised to use the word "genocide" to describe the 1915 massacre by Turks of Armenians -- a pledge Obama made when seeking Armenian-American votes.
article_snippet.sent: Back then, Obama held up Obama willingness to call it a "genocide" as an example of why Obama was the kind of truth-telling candidate the nation needed.
article_snippet.sent: In 2006, after the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia was asked to resign for using the term Armenian genocide, then-Sen.
article_snippet.sent: Obama hammered the Bush administration for not taking a stand.
article_snippet.sent: the word "genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence," then-Sen said.
article_snippet.sent: We cannot define what happened in 1915 as a genocide," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told CNN on Tuesday.
article_snippet.sent: In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about genocide, Obama's current Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power hammered U.S. policy makers for not acknowledging or acting to stop such atrocities.
article_snippet.sent: No U.S. president has ever made genocide prevention a priority, and No U.S. president has ever suffered politically for No U.S. president indifference to No U.S. president occurrence.
article_snippet.sent: It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on," her wrote.
highlights_snippet.sent: Obama promised Armenian-Americans Obama would call the atrocity genocide during the 2008 campaign.
  