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!"
Do political parties vet anyone who’s running within their party? I would think that a vetting process would have to be in place or perhaps not...
Wait wait wait.... Obama put the Somalis in her district and they elected her...
His work is over.
He got her and others like her elected.
Let the change begin!
You can bet the other African Muslim is fuming at this. How dare she steal the limelight from him !
Yeah, criticizing the Kenyanesian Usurper isn’t going to win her friends in the Democrat party.
First muslim Marxist black ineligible President and all.....
Yep. She just touched the third rail. THIS is the kind of thing that will get her a well funded primary opponents nd assigned to the small business committee.
This will be like a mob war. The democrat old guard vs the upstarts. Who will win?
She’s going to put together one weird coalition if she keeps this sort of stuff up.
Leftist trash trashing other leftist trash.
Your OPINION has been recorded.. O.K.?
Now how about the fact that Omar first made the statement and is NOW BACKTRACKING on it.
My comment was simply aimed at the fact that the Dimms are blowing themselves up.
Your comment seems to be siding with Omar that she is "right" and that Obama was a ne'er do well.
Am I reading that right?
Obama wanted to destroy the USA to prove his belief it wasn’t exceptional was true. He tried to prove his false belief.
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