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!"
Yes both parties and the politicians that have served way too many terms have gotten us into the mess we are in. The Bushes were some of the worst.
Of course, a muslim would not like the killing of jihadists.
They are doing Allah’s will.
My mind wandered to all the people around Obama and the Clintons who died when I read the phrase “getting away with murder”.
Yet for some reason, the New York Times doesn’t have a headline today calling her racist..
“....they will never, ever accept the Jew...”
I’m having a hard time forgiving the Jew for voting against their own existence.
I've wondered that myself. Obama was indeed still the pot-head, choom-gang member and affirmative action wonder-boy he was labelled from early days. But we know Obama was also a hologram candidate, seemingly plucked out of nowhere manufactured, and put in his place by others, for American consumers. It seems that as part of the deal, Obama understood and accepted that he wasn't fully in-charge.
He was a mirage standing behind a TelePrompTer. He never accomplished anything in his life just like faillary.
LOL! Thinking the same.
I agree!
Liberals are going to be outraged.
How dare she bad-mouth and criticize Prophet Obama?!?!
He did more to advance the cause of Islam than even Mohammed. If not for Obama, she might not have been elected.
She’s going to get reprimanded by Pelosi and congress, and this time, her name will be used in the reprimand. Can’t go around attacking a fellow Muslim.
Tellingly, “hope and change” (in Spanish) was Maduro’s slogan before it was Obama’s.
How long before the establishment claims she has been planted into the party by Trump.
what?...Is Obama Jewish?
Finally ... something from her I can agree with.
Omar will leave no one un-pissed.
Of course, my agreeing with her only lasts through the article title.
LOL!! Be careful in the shower.
LOL Obama wasn’t commie enough for her rag head Jihadist loving ass LOL
History will call this the start of the Muzzie-Mulatto War
Not really. I’d wager big bucks that she could kick that pansy’s ass in less than a minute.
Kabuki theater.. fake outrage.
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