https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/856588272214175746
Former Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power is sorry, y’all, for not doing more to recognize the Armenian genocide:
I am very sorry that, during our time in office, we in the Obama administration did not recognize the #Armenian Genocide
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) April 24, 2017
Too little, too late:
I guess for 8 years it just slipped their minds… https://t.co/JujZkpbsz4
— Mickey White (@BiasedGirl) April 24, 2017
Remember when Obama promised to do so?
Obama had promised to recognized the genocide during his campaign, but he never did. https://t.co/yI3zvSiusp
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) April 24, 2017
This was a big broken campaign promise by Obama https://t.co/2coEtjEMvS
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 24, 2017
We look forward to her next apology on Syria:
Or the Syrian one? https://t.co/fphskNoPkj
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) April 24, 2017
One down and one to go!
At least that's one ignored genocide apologized for. One to go. https://t.co/wIck4mWZFp
— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) April 24, 2017
And what’s with her post-Obama concern-trolling? Take this story, for example, on all of the items confiscated from illegal immigrants stopped at the Mexican border:
Rosaries confiscated from undocumented migrants by US border patrol agents. From a story in the @NewYorker https://t.co/lmVmPzM04f pic.twitter.com/n7iABgKFbY
— Michael J. O'Loughlin (@MikeOLoughlin) March 20, 2017
Those rosaries do make for a powerful image, which Power noted:
So much in this picture https://t.co/qasqWcjufZ
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) March 20, 2017
But only if you click on the article do you realize that the objects in the artist’s photographs, Tom Kiefer, are from his time working as a janitor at at C.B.P. processing center in Ajo, Arizona during the Obama administration:
In 2014—after more than a decade working with C.B.P., and after seven years of sneaking out the trash—Kiefer quit his job to work on “El Sueño Americano” full-time. One day in Ajo, he ran into a secretary from his old job: the C.B.P. agents, she told him, were “furious” that he’d spent his on-the-clock time “stealing” government property for a private project.
Kiefer “sees his project as a counterweight to C.B.P.’s dehumanizing practices,” which we wonder if Power knows that all of this happened on her watch, too.
Or how about this comment of her’s responding to Iran’s role in the Syrian conflict?
"You're defending the shrines,which have never existed in Idlib and Homs".Student challenges IRGC's Abbasi for Iran's role in Syria(Eng sub) pic.twitter.com/2p3zXcZxAA
— Iran in Syrian war (@warreports) April 23, 2017
Remarkable https://t.co/g0RUWgHYnW
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) April 24, 2017
Or her newfound concern for Yemen?
How many more five-siren alarms are needed for the fate of actual Yemenis to matter? https://t.co/Zw4p3povoR
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) April 16, 2017
Or this on Assad’s chemical weapons which Obama supposedly got rid of?
And not Assad's chemical weapons attacks? https://t.co/0Kh6L5fqPz
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) April 5, 2017
If only Samantha Power knew someone who could’ve righted these wrongs over the past 8 years…
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