Ilhan Omar Goes After Obama, Suggests He Was a 'Pretty Face' Who Got 'Away With Murder'

[leftynyc]

From the Politico report:

Omar was fed up—not so much with Trumpism, or with politics in general, as with the Democratic Party.

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.

“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 says. “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.”


https://www.mediaite.com/online/ilhan-omar-goes-after-obama-suggests-he-was-a-pretty-face-who-got-away-with-murder/



I really don't know what else to say other than I'm getting fed up with this woman.

[PTWB]

7. Obama was an INCREDIBLE President. She is very wrong.

[still_one]

2. I have nothing good to say about her, so I won't

[justhanginon]

3. Same here.

[leftynyc]

5. I'm fucking done with her

I simply don't give a crap and don't care what happens to her from here on in. Hopefully, she'll be primaried.

[pnwmom]

4. A DUer who bashed Obama like that would be kicked out, and rightly so. nt

[leftynyc]

8. Damn right they would

I honestly don't know who the fuck she thinks she is.

[BannonsLiver]

25. There was a poster who agreed with her in another thread

The same poster who has also shown a hatred for Obama in a lot of posts I’ve seen from them.

[empedocles]

6. 'Obama . . . get away with murder'. At some point, all Dems, are going

th have to do some reckoning.

[leftynyc]

11. Her hyperbolic bullshit

is of no interest to me whatsoever. Pres Obama had to put up with more bullshit than any before him and I don't want to hear crap like this from our side. Anyone who makes our job of getting rid of donnie harder is no friend of mine so I'm kicking her to the curb. Go ahead and defend this bullshit if you want. I'm done.

[4now]

9. Just lost my support

[Horizens]

24. Primary

If she's primaries, I'll donate to her opponent.

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. Who voted for this woman?

Was she telling her district these things before the election?

[BannonsLiver]

21. She'll be one and done IMO

[brush]

33. Yeah, why did she run as a Democrat?

She's attacking us and equating Obama with trump.

Two years goes fast. Looks like she will be one-termer.

[Dennis Donovan]

12. Uh oh. Repugs won't know whether to shit or go blind...

...since they'll find themselves in agreement with her.

[patricia92243]

17. I haven't heard that expression in years "shit or go blind." Lola

[Alea]

13. Yep

Nothing else tos compliant to say about this.

[maxsolomon]

14. Every President Kills.

Murder is one of the job descriptions. To think the American Empire doesn't kill, or that any given President can abstain from it, is sheer naivete.

It is precisely this reason that a person with actual Ethical principles be elected.

I proudly voted for Obama to kill for me. Judiciously, and not wantonly.

[Codeine]

15. Predictable.

This person should not be a Democratic officeholder.

[PeeJ52]

16. I'm pretty sure Michael Moore went after Obama too in 11/9 for his Flint charade...

Rick Snyder should be in jail for the Flint Michigan water scandal.

[Jose Garcia]

18. We going to lose Jewish support because of this woman

Hope that it's worth it.

[leftynyc]

19. Shades of what's happening to the Labor Party

in Great Britain where I wouldn't have a political home. I'm hearing she's going to get primaried so I'm hopeful about that.

[lostnfound]

41. And Muslim support when she ends up ostracized or censured?

It’s disappointing.

[BannonsLiver]

20. I had high hopes.

I was actually more intrigued by her than AOC which seems foolish now. Her viscious slurs of President Obama are a deal breaker With me. Full stop.

As for the Israel-Palestine issue my hunch is that is well down the list of concerns of the people who sent her to congress. I suspect she will be a one termer at this rate.

[TheRealNorth]

22. Inaccurate and inflammatory hit on Rep. Omar

Rep Omar did not say what is quoted. That's the paraphrasing from the knob that wrote the article. (Or titled the article).

The original poster should be ashamed of themselves.

[frazzled]

26. Really? She didn't say what is in quotation marks?

If so, what exactly did she say, verbatim (not your interpretation).

[leftynyc]

27. That's the title of the piece linked

You'll have to take it up with them.

[leftynyc]

30. The entirety of her quote is in the link

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.”


If you or Rep Omar are disputing the quote, take it up with Mediaite.

[treestar]

23. He is not running now

Why is she bothering with this?

[chillfactor]

28. I cannot stand this fake Democrat

every time she opens her mouth......garbage rolls out.

[David__77]

29. Omar is face of the Democratic Party.

Along with others, of course.

[leftynyc]

32. Not as far as I'm concerned

She's a Democrat but NOT the face of the party. She's one of 435 members of the house and nobody would know her name other than her constituents if she didn't wear a headscarf. NOBODY but Democrats get to say who the face of our party is.

[R B Garr]

42. Exactly! There is no excuse for this now. Disgusted with the

smearing of a popular Democratic president with these nasty useless barbs... pretty face?! Outrageous.

[IluvPitties]

31. Very unfortunate.

[BluegrassDem]

34. Why don't she join the Green Party?

I'm sick of these ultra left wing Dems bashing other Dems and hurting our party overall. Just leave the party and go join Jill Stein.

[leftynyc]

35. Agree

May be time for a sit down with the Speaker.

[brush]

36. She's naive and a little silly. As if the Palestinians haven't also killed...

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for their cause but killed nonetheless. Obama tried mighttly to stay out of wars and did, even ending the war in Iraq. IMO she committed one of the mistakes Gillebrand made. And I'm not talking about the Franken scandal. I'm talking about her stabbing Bill Clinton in the back when he was out of office and not running.

Too late for her now. She should have shut up after alienatinv our the Jewish segment of our coalition, now she's alienated African Americans and most Dems.

She's toast before she gets anything done her voters sent her to DC to do.

TOAST!

[PubliusEnigma]

37. Wow! She's going down in flames.

[a kennedy]

38. and you should, (not) watch faux noise.....they're having a field day......

If it isn’t her, it’s AOC.

[rollin74]

39. she is a big asset for the gop and right wing

Is she trying to get Trump re-elected in 2020?

[rockfordfile]

40. She is spreading lies about President Obama. She's spewing right-wing lies