Posted on 03/08/2019 9:27:48 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) trashed former President Barack Obama in a new profile of the freshman lawmaker, saying the "hope and change" he offered was a mirage and he was one of many predecessors to President Donald Trump to have "really bad policies."
Omar was the subject of a Politico story on her and fellow Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips (D., Minn.), who represents a neighboring district. The two are framed as symbolizing the colliding forces in the new Democratic House majority, with Omar representing the far-left flank and Phillips the more center-left sensibilities that helped recapture suburban districts from Republicans in 2018.
Omar, a Somali-born refugee, was fed up with the Democratic establishment by the time she ran for office in 2016 for a seat in the Minnesota state house. She won and then easily captured a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, and she wasn't shy about telling Politico her objections to Obama-era policies, like detention centers for illegal immigrant children and the "droning of countries around the world:"
As she saw it, the party ostensibly committed to progressive values had become complicit in perpetuating the status quo. Omar says the "hope and change" offered by Barack Obama was a mirage. Recalling the "caging of kids" at the U.S.-Mexico border and the "droning of countries around the world" on Obama’s watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor.
Without naming Obama specifically, Omar said no one should get away with malfeasance in office if they had "the pretty face and the smile."
"We can’t be only upset with Trump … His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies. They just were more polished than he was," Omar said. "And that’s not what we should be looking for anymore. We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile."
Omar was the subject of a Politico story on her and fellow Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips (D., Minn.), who represents a neighboring district. The two are framed as symbolizing the colliding forces in the new Democratic House majority, with Omar representing the far-left flank and Phillips the more center-left sensibilities that helped recapture suburban districts from Republicans in 2018.
Omar, a Somali-born refugee, was fed up with the Democratic establishment by the time she ran for office in 2016 for a seat in the Minnesota state house. She won and then easily captured a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, and she wasn't shy about telling Politico her objections to Obama-era policies, like detention centers for illegal immigrant children and the "droning of countries around the world:"
As she saw it, the party ostensibly committed to progressive values had become complicit in perpetuating the status quo. Omar says the "hope and change" offered by Barack Obama was a mirage. Recalling the "caging of kids" at the U.S.-Mexico border and the "droning of countries around the world" on Obama’s watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor.
Without naming Obama specifically, Omar said no one should get away with malfeasance in office if they had "the pretty face and the smile."
"We can’t be only upset with Trump … His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies. They just were more polished than he was," Omar said. "And that’s not what we should be looking for anymore. We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile."
Omar's specific invocation of the "hope and change" motto of Obama was striking, given she tweeted during his farewell address in 2017: "Thank you Obama for being a source of inspiration, hope and change. I have always been proud to call you my president!"
Well - now she’s stepped in it.
How long before she says these statements were “taken out of context?”
I didn’t even need to read past the headline to guess that she would object to his penchant for drone strikes against terrorists.
Will she be called RACIST, 24/7 now?
Doubt it.
History will call this the start of the Muzzie-Mulatto War
Oh this is getting good. More popcorn on order.
Bet she’s still mourning over bin Laden’s “untimely” demise.
We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished.
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Tell that to your polished turd homeboys who fly planes into our buildings.
Yeah, criticizing the Kenyanesian Usurper isn’t going to win her friends in the Democrat party.
First muslim Marxist black ineligible President and all.....
Throwing "turds" into the punch bowl will not end well for Miss Muzzie.
She is not alone.
The table was set for Obama to turn this into a Socialist country when he took the oath in 2009. The accolades from the Greek Columns were still echoing, and the economy was a smoldering wreckage. He could have taken the country into Socialism at that moment, and nobody would have stopped him.
The fact that he didn’t will NEVER be forgiven by these new young radicals.
Obama failed in his mission to destroy America.
He was paid lots of money by the parasites and they have no results,. This is a signal probably that he is no longer needed nor relevent .
She’s correct, but for the wrong reasons.
For her, Obama wasn’t Left or radical enough.
Being an anti-semetic radical muslim aside, what is it about these capitol hill newbies that makes them think they are so much smarter than everyone else?
Being an anti-semetic radical muslim aside, what is it about these capitol hill newbies that makes them think they are so much smarter than everyone else?
Thanks again Minne-f***ing-sota!
Having her badmouth Obama’s policies.....isn’t that a bit like the pot calling the stove black?
IMO we dodged a bullet because Obama is, by nature, LAZY.
If he was as hard-working as Trump today this country would be positively Stalinist.
David Duke agrees with her AGAIN!
Will he campaign for her in 2020!
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