{"id":118214,"date":"2019-03-08T16:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T20:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=118214"},"modified":"2019-03-08T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T20:16:42","slug":"omar-bashes-obama-as-pretty-face-who-got-away-with-murder-hope-and-change-was-a-mirage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=118214","title":{"rendered":"Omar bashes Obama as ‘pretty face’ who ‘got away with murder’, ‘hope and change’ was a mirage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ilhan Omar: Obama\u2019s a \u2018pretty face\u2019 who got \u2018away with murder\u2019<\/h1>\n

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By Bob Fredericks
\nNew York Post<\/p>\n

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Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped former President Barack Obama in an interview published Friday, belittling his \u201cpretty face\u201d and saying his agenda of hope and change was an illusion.<\/p>\n

She cited the \u201ccaging of kids\u201d at the Mexican border and the \u201cdroning of countries around the world\u201d on Obama\u2019s watch \u2014 and argued that he wasn\u2019t much different from President Trump<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t be only upset with Trump,\u201d the freshman firebrand\u00a0told Politico Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis 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,\u201d Omar said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s not what we should be looking for anymore. We don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The explosive comments about a man lionized by Democrats were only the latest in a series of incendiary statements that have put the national spotlight on Omar, a Somali-American Muslim who spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya after her family fled the violence in their homeland.<\/p>\n

In February, her second month in office, Omar responded to a tweet about House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy\u2019s threats to punish her and another congresswoman for criticizing Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all about the Benjamins baby,\u201d she tweeted, a line from a Puff Daddy song about $100 bills.<\/p>\n

Critics said Omar was perpetuating a hateful trope about Jewish Americans and money.<\/p>\n

She recently got into another hot mess after another tweet was slammed by some as anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n

The ensuing firestorm rattled the Democratic House majority and spurred days of recriminations and tense negotiations that led to the compromise package condemning bigotry that sailed through the House on Thursday, with only 23 Republicans voting against it.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s leftist wing, led by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said Omar was being singled out when others at the highest levels of government had said things that were worse and escaped censure.<\/p>\n

More moderate Dems, including Jewish lawmakers such as New York\u2019s Eliot Engle, wanted the resolution to focus only on anti-Semitism as a direct response to Omar\u2019s comment, which questioned the loyalty of politicians who accept donations from pro-Israel PACs and organizations.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, after days of chaos and acrimony, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was able to unite her caucus \u2014 and box in a big majority of Republicans \u2014 to back the compromise.<\/p>\n

And Omar \u2014 along with Rashida Tlaib of Michigan the first Muslim women in Congress \u2014 said she\u2019s willing to keep speaking out and be a Republican punching bag if it helps advance her agenda, a prospect that likely makes many of her fellow Democrats cringe.<\/p>\n

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