Ilhan Omar and Barack Obama
Ilhan Omar Slams Pretty Face Barack Obama Who Got Away with Murder Young Democrat took swings at the former president and she isn't a fan of his 'hope and change' slogan, either Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) unexpectedly trashed former President Barack Obama as someone with a pretty face who got away with murder during a wide-ranging interview with Politico Magazine published Friday. Omar (pictured above right) is one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress. Shes also the first Somali-American in Congress. The lawmaker has had a rocky two months in Congress thus far. She came under fire last week for her latest round of comments that many Americans widely deemed as anti-Semitic. The House ultimately passed a resolution on Thursday condemning all hatred and bigotry. The resolution originally was supposed to condemn anti-Semitism in response to the Omar controversy. Democrats caved and broadened the resolution after some vocal progressives defended Omar and said shed been unfairly targeted. But before this controversy even broke, Omar gave an interview with Politico Magazines Tim Alberta that was published on Friday. In the interview, Omar bashed her own party accusing it of becoming complicit in perpetuating the status quo, according to Alberta. Omar also knocked Obama an unusual move from a Democrat. The former president is widely beloved among Democrats and remains popular with those on the Left. Yet Omar criticized Obamas iconic calls for hope and change, saying those calls were inconsistent with his administrations actual policies. Im OK with taking the blows if it means it will ignite conversations that no one was willing to have before. Recalling the caging of kids at the U.S.-Mexico border and the droning of countries around the world on Obamas watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor, Alberta noted. Omar told Alberta <https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/08/ilhan-omar-dean-phillips -minnesota-democratic-party-225696> , We cant be only upset with [President Donald] 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 thats not what we should be looking for anymore. We dont 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. Democrats began decrying the use of cages to hold illegal immigrant children in detention after Trump became president. None of the Democrats, however, seemed concerned when the Obama administration used these same enclosures to detain illegal immigrant children temporarily until they could be placed with sponsors. Omar also said in the interview that she looks forward to continuing to agitate our foreign policy discussions in a way that many of my colleagues who have been anti-intervention, anti-war, have been unable to do in the past. So, Im OK with taking the blows if it means it will ignite conversations that no one was willing to have before, Omar insisted. EM -> { Trump for 2020 } On the 49th Parallel Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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