Why Are Jews Held So Sacrosanct in American Political Life These Days?

ILHAN OMAR: OBAMA WAS JUST A PRETTY FACE; “HOPE AND CHANGE” WAS AN ILLUSION

Having escaped condemnation for her anti-Semitic remarks, and indeed having avoided even a straight resolution condemning anti-Semtism itself, Rep. Ilhan Omar has gone on the attack. That’s not surprising, but some might be surprised at the target of her latest attack.

This time, it’s not Jews. This time the target is former president Barack Obama. The New York Post reports:

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped former President Barack Obama in an interview published Friday, belittling his “pretty face” and saying his agenda of hope and change was an illusion.

She cited the “caging of kids” at the Mexican border and the “droning of countries around the world” on Obama’s watch — and argued that he wasn’t much different from President Trump

“We can’t be only upset with Trump,” the freshman firebrand told Politico Magazine.

“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.”

If this were the view of only Omar and some fringe Democrats, it wouldn’t be a big deal. The problem for Democrats is that it’s the view of significant portion of congressional Democrats and Democratic voters. Omar is saying what many Democratic politicians believe but have been afraid to say until now.

How many House Democrats share Omar’s view? What percentage of Democratic voters do? These are the big questions, to which I don’t know the answers.

But if you strip away Omar’s inflammatory rhetoric and focus on her two substantive talking points — the detention of illegal immigrants at the border and the use of lethal force by the U.S. military abroad, I wouldn’t be surprised if her views have something approaching, or maybe even exceeding, majority support among Democrats.

Few Democrats would agree with Omar’s absurd suggestion that Presidents Obama and Trump are two sides of the same coin — a pretty side and an ugly side. But Trump will leave the stage either in 2021 or 2025. The policy rift in the Democratic party looks like its here to stay.

Either that or Omar’s side will prevail, in which case the Democrats risk years in the political wilderness.

The furies have been unleashed…..by Paul Mirengoff  at  PowerLine.

BUT WE LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FOLKS!!

by Glenn H. Ray

Why is it in our today’s America, the only community  forever protected and held in  perfection, sans public criticism in our country’s  world of standard national communication, is our Jewish brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and so on?

No matter how true, how important,  and honestly  presented the negative criticism might be within our Jewish world , the topic, the speech, the article, the book, or the paragraph alone could,  would   stir threats, even disorder on campuses, causing  screams  of historic proportions throughout our American political networks.   Yet in order of noise,  language fowl, television, and printed  attack,  most likely,  the trouble  tarts  would be 60% Democrat, 30% Republican, 7% Jewish,  and miscellaneous 3%.

Folks, we Americans  advertise our American belief in the importance of free enterprise which includes  free speech.   Ilhan Omar apparently has a background of life and learning foreign to our America.    I am guessing she believes what she says from her life’s experiences.   I am presuming she is an American citizen, and so has an American right in life to express her views in our Good old USA!

Some of America’s most devious politicians happen to be leftist Jews in Congress and the law industry…..All Americans should get to know truthless Adam Schiff,   Jerrold Nadler,  Richard Blumenthal, and such ‘unlikables’   better.

I, like our gifted President Donald J. Trump, am NOT an anti-Semite.   I was born and raised in a JudeoChristian urban environment in which the only community minority until high school was Jewish.  I attended a very well disciplined high school, 1948-1952  in which about a quarter of students in my classes were Jewish.   Inevitably, I buddied up with a lot  of the  Jewish guys, despite the displeasure of some of their mothers…. ….displeased only because I was a Gentile…..

We were made well educated in those days…..We had good times learning together in civilized classrooms with great teachers, a  demanding standard in those days.

My current favorite “social, educational,  and political” American  is Dennis Prager,   another   conservative who  is not an anti-Semite.

My son-in-law,  born in New York City, is a Jewish Democrat  fellow.   They live on Manhattan.   They have a good marriage.   He’s good to my daughter!  I adore him!