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!"
Having her badmouth Obama’s policies.....isn’t that a bit like the pot calling the stove black? Both have their own policies & both are proven wrong.
...”hope and change” he offered was a mirage...
Can’t argue with that point.
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If we could just get her to trash the Clintons .... well, we know what tends to happen. Problem solved.
‘Will she be called RACIST, 24/7 now?’
nope...she’s the apex predator in the left wing ecosystem...
You’re probably right that her reference to “getting away with murder” is the drone strikes, but as I was reading it, my first thought was Seth Rich.
And you know what? A majority of the country agrees with holding both parties accountable for the mess we're in, in the abstract. The problem is we're being played one side against the other so the big picture never gets addressed.
Some of these new dem reps dwell in that place that's such an outlier that the true left and the true right come to agreement.
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My take as well.
Broken watch, correct time twice a day, etc.
Seems like she specifically talked about “droning of countries around the world”.
Love it!
“Hope” and “Change” are incomplete without stating what you hope for, or what you want to change to...
Ad millions of morons fell for it.
His critical mistake (imho) was not doing amnesty instead of Obamacare.
He had a window 2009-2010 when Democrats controlled it all to get one big thing done and he could have gotten amnesty.
The GOP would not win another election and they could do all the rest after that.
0bama wasn’t an open, out-of-the-closet, All Out Communist ... so some of his policies weren’t radical enough for islamofilth Jew-hater Omar.
Yep. Stepped in it also by trashing the liberal hero John McCain.
You’re probably right.
His ego likely could not let him walk away from having his name attached to the law that “fixed” healthcare.
No, she's just that stupid. Rahm Emanuel just set her on fire with his calling her antisemitism ....uh...antisemitism. So she's going after his former boss and trainee, Obongo.
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