Here's Omar's Response to Those Who Have Called Her 'Radical'

Townhall.com ^ | December 14, 2019 | Beth Bauman

[Kaslin]

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has been on the campaign trail stumping for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). During a campaign event in New Hampshire on Friday, Omar argued that the media has falsely labeled her and Bernie as "radicals."

"The media and many political pundits have labels they place on Sen. Bernie and myself and sometimes we get the same titles. And one that they like to use is 'radical,'" she said with a smile. "Here's the truth: if believing that 500,000 Americans should not be forced into medical bankruptcy every single year is radical, then we're proud to be radical."

"If believing that mental health, vision health, dental health should be guaranteed to all Americans, is something that they consider radical, then we should all be proud to be radicals," she said.

Omar argued that the opioid criss could be solved by giving Americans Medicare for All and that "free" public education should be extended to college as well.

"If you believe that we should have Wall Street pay to cancel out student debt as radical, then we should all consider ourselves radical," the Congresswoman said.

Other topics that she argued as "radical" stances she's proud to take: wanting kids to eat school lunch even if they don't have money, not wanting to see homeless on the street in frigid weather and believing it's wrong for Americans to be evicted from their homes because they can't afford rent.

"I happen to believe that climate change is an existential threat to humanity and believing that climate crisis and refugee crisis are linked. If it will take a global refugee pact to make sure climate refugees who lose their homes are welcomed with open arms, and not shot out by a cringe fest, if that thought is radical, then we should all consider ourselves radical," Omar explained.

"I happen to believe that we cannot continue to ship jobs overseas and pay workers pennies on the dollar while laying off highly skilled union worker at home and I believe, with all my heart, that my destiny, your destiny, the destiny of workers around the world are linked together," she said. "If that idea is radical then I am so proud to be radical."

"The truth is the only radicalism we're motivated by is radical love. That's why we're calling on everyone to be moved radically by love for their neighbors, for our country, for our democracy and for our humanity," Omar explained.

Omar compared progressive views to that of Dr. Martin Luther King, saying that just before he passed away, he launched the Poor People's Campaign, "building a multi-racial working class coalition" to end the three evils he saw: racism, poverty and war.

She argued that Sanders has continued on the with the "radical love" Dr. King was fighting for as a means of fighting "the dark cloud of hate hanging over America."

No one wants to see their neighbors addicted to opioids, homeless on the street, kids being turned away from school lunch or people being evicted from their homes. That's not the American dream. We all want to fix that problem. But taking money from the so-called "rich" and middle class Americans to spread the wealth doesn't fix the problem. Throwing money at homeless people doesn't address why they became homeless to begin with. Giving an addict Medicare for All doesn't suddenly keep them from using their drug of choice.

This idea of "radical love" sounds great on paper. It's a feel good type of movement but it's not practical, especially when there's no plans to pay for this "love."

[equaviator]

Call her “Girlfriend”.

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>No one wants to see their neighbors addicted to opioids, homeless on the street, kids being turned away from school lunch or people being evicted from their homes. That’s not the American dream. We all want to fix that problem. But taking money from the so-called “rich” and middle class Americans to spread the wealth doesn’t fix the problem. Throwing money at homeless people doesn’t address why they became homeless to begin with. Giving an addict Medicare for All doesn’t suddenly keep them from using their drug of choice<<<

Is she auditioning to run POTUS Trump’s 2020 Campaign?

[samtheman]

Imagine the IQ level of the audience. How low can they go?

[GOPJ]

You’re right. Throwing money at these problems without understanding underlying incentive patterns doesn’t do anything except redistribute the wealth from producers to government social workers, commies, and budding psychopaths...

[ctdonath2]

“It takes a certain amount of courage
to get up in a coffee house or a college auditorium and come out
in favor of the things that everybody else in the audience is against,
like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on.“
- Tom Lehrer, Folk Song Army

[RoosterRedux]

Oldest trick in the book.

If you believe that permitting hungry (and curious) people to eat from the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil" is radical...then we're radical.

[rktman]

Yeah, peace, and justice and brotherhood and so on. The only monkey wrench in that way of thinking is, and it seems like tommy is unaware, the inclusion of humans in the equation. Sooner or later jim jones or che or adolf or mao or LRH or grrrrrreta or someone that is able to persuade folks that they know best about how to do things appears and the same folks follow them. I believe it’s called human nature. And that has about the same chance of changing as the climate doomers.

[Liz]

This loyal Muzzie Somali's got tons of money from Muzzie thiefs.
She's running around OUR country on our dime training Muzzies how to win US elected office.

The new Muslim Caucus already has a website and extensive social media. Their first conference will be featuring an array of anti-American, anti-Semitic, and Trump disparaging terror-tied icons like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and woman beater and Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison, who resigned from his role as DNC co-chair last year.

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THIS IS OUR MOMENT TO ORGANIZE AS ONE CONSTITUENCY During this historic time of a nation divided, we must defend access to the tools of democracy, which requires grassroots organizing led by Muslim Americans in Muslim communities, strategic coordination across states with year-round organizing to engage Muslim citizens to build their political power.

It requires capacity building and progress as a collective toward policy change and political education, as well as the patience to persist in the long-term work of building sustainable movements that can be linked with related fights for equality and justice within the multi-ethnic, multi-racial Muslim constituencies across America.

This is our moment to come together and organize as one constituency, bridge traditional advocacy, and policy organizations and grassroots groups to work together in building Muslim American Electoral Power at the local, state, and national level to build our power beyond 2020.

MEDIA INQUIRIES:CONTACT: Kawana Lloyd, 240-472-2860, kawana@megaphonestrategies.com; Nick Hatcher, 919-802-5663, nick@megaphonestrategies.com

WEB SITE: https://www.muslimcaucuscollective.org According to the Muslim Caucus website, “A Caucus represent the interest of a specific group or constituency such as Blacks, Hispanics, Labor, and Asians, etc. within the Democratic Party. Therefore, the Muslim Caucus of America represents the interest of the racially and ethnically diverse constituency of Muslim American Democrats.

[Liz]

SOURCE: Minnesota Sun Newspaper

Obama’s US Department of State (DOS) discovered widespread Somali fraud in Minnesota in one of its largest programs for admissions to America, the so-called P-3 family reunification program.

First revealed by Miriam Jordan writing at The Wall Street Journal, the DOS learned that as many as 30,000 Somalis had entered America under the false pretense of “family members,” but were later determined through random DNA testing to have used the program fraudulently.

Large numbers of Somali refugee family members were found to not be biologically related at all. Under the scandal, Somali “relatives” were continuously being “found” and joining their “family” in the U.S. As Frontline reported in 2015, they were making up “ghost children.”

The degree of the fraud shocked the outgoing Bush Administration and as President Barack Obama took charge of the DOS, it had no choice but to suspend the program indefinitely. From 2008-2012, family reunification from Somalia, and other east African countries, was closed. However, no effort was made by the Obama administration’s immigration officials to discover and remove those found to have committed immigration fraud. There is no evidence to date that Omar’s family participated in the widespread practice.

Indeed, when allegations surfaced in 2016 about Omar’s questionable marriage, then Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andrew Lugar, an Obama appointee, refused to investigate, andcorrected local affiliate KMSP Fox 9 for reporting that he did.

“U.S. Attorney Andy Luger says he did not ask ICE to investigate the immigration status of then-legislative candidate Ilhan Omar,” Fox 9 reported.

[hanamizu]

First of all, poor kids get free lunches. And lots of schools give free lunches to everyone, since the schools get more “aid” the more kids are on the free lunch program.

As a geezer, I’m on Medicare. Unless one is on an Advantage supplement in certain areas, “vision health, dental health should be guaranteed to all Americans” are not covered, we get to pay for those, or for insurance covering those.

As to why “Wall Street” should be expected to pay for all of the unpaid college debts, I don’t see why. A big part of my retirement funds are invested in “Wall Street”. Neither the Street nor I urged people to go into debt for questionable college degrees. The students, legal adults, signed the papers.

[bigbob]

“You’re a racist!”

That’s her reply to everything.

[PGalt]

Where’s the rest of the Squid Squad?

BOURGEOIS SOCIALISTS -Even the commies hated them.- Communist Manifesto p.49

A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society.

To this section belong economists, philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers of every imaginable kind. This form of Socialism has, moreover, been worked out into complete systems.

We may site Proudhon’s Philosophie de la Misere as an example of this form.
The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements.

Work harder slaves. Socialism is Legal Plunder - Bastiat “The Law”

https://usdebtclock.org

Our overlords, our BOURGEOIS SOCIALISTS live large, don’t they?

[Bob434]

[[”If believing that mental health, vision health, dental health should be guaranteed to all Americans, is something that they consider radical,]]

BZZZZT Nope- Wrong! That’s not why we call you radical- try again sunshine- Come on, you can do it- think- it’s not too hard to figure out why we now are fully convinced you are a radical!

[Liz]

AND THIS: The Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014 (your tax dollars blanket the globe)

BACKSTORY To allow the Secretary of the Treasury to rely on State examinations for certain financial institutions, and for other purposes. The Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014 (H.R. 4386; Pub.L. 113–156) is a bill that passed in the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.

The list of organizations pushing the bill included:
<><> Conference of State Bank Supervisors,
<><>Money Transmitter Regulators Association,
<><> Oxfam America,
<><> African Development Solutions (ADESO),
<><> the Somali American Remittances association,
<><> the Somali American Remittances association,
<><> Tawakal Money Express,
<><> Kaah Express,
<><> Dahab-shiil (Kenyan refugee camp--Omar's departure point),
<><> Amal USA Inc,
<><> Somali Action Alliance,
<><> The Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Remittances_Improvement_Act_of_2014

[Macoozie]

“on Sen. Bernie and myself “

It’s “me”, dear.

I hate it when folks do that presumptuous ghetto grammar.

Makes my eyes hurt.

Wayans Brothers “Oswald Bates” had it down!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xxvp5R9hE

[Liz]

COUNTRIES RECEIVING REMITTANCES ARE MOSTLY MUSLIM----PIGGING OUT AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH.

[HotHunt]

Neither one of these "radicals" has ever owned or run anything. All they know is gigantic government ideology.

I don't make a habit of getting my advice from anybody who hasn't done it before.

All these two know is to confiscate all of your money in your wallets and spend it on their pet wet dreams of free everything for everyone.

Not only is this radical but it is ignorant too. No mention from either of them of taking other people's money (translation: government mandated theft) to pay for free stuff for people who won't work or don't want to work.

The only concern is for the "poor" souls" who don't have free stuff. Never any concern for the people who have to pay for all that free stuff.

These two deserve each other. The ignorant partnering with the stupid to run things for people who don't know better.

Idiots on parade.

[Bullish]

Get yer’ wallets out guys.

[PGalt]

“I say, now watch what YOU say
Or they’ll be calling YOU a radical
A liberal
Oh, fanatical, criminal”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBoYZqmcZuc

Good take. Akin to Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues,

Traditional...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVOc-SM8kHc

Criminal wordsmith liars are good at turning things around.