“Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has lived the American dream,” but in her telling “America has always been a nightmare…conceived in sin, built on oppression and bigotry.” So writes conservative commentator Benjamin Weingarten in his new book, American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party, an incisive exposé of this dangerous, subversive rising political star.
Omar is “amazingly ungrateful,” Weingarten notes, after America’s land of opportunity has taken in Omar’s family as refugees from 1990s war-torn Somalia and allowed her to achieve lofty heights. Rather than laud America’s freedom, she has become a prominent national figure in a “red-green” alliance of convenience between Islamists and Leftists, united in their various collectivist desires to extinguish liberty. Thus she “is in the running for leader of the modern-day ‘Blame America Firsters.’”
Former federal prosecutor and leading conservative intellectual, Andrew McCarthy, notes in a forward that “Omar is the instantiation of this Islamist-Leftist collusion.” This “committed ideologue at the crossroads of statism” forms an intersectional link between two ideologies that jointly despise Western civilization yet radically differ over key issues such as gender and human sexuality. Accordingly the “alliance between Islamists and Leftists is not intuitive,” he notes, and Weingarten observes that in Omar’s confused farrago “it is unclear where her Leftism ends and her Islamist sympathies begin.”
Weingarten analyzes how the “secular progressive camp” and the “Islamist camp” want “to impose totalitarian designs anathema to America’s founding principles and the Judeo-Christian values that underlie them.” Rather than benefit disadvantaged minorities, such centralizing agendas will actually primarily empower state-employed “white elite social justice warriors.” Such devotees of a “Great Awokening” will impose a “condescending paternalism justified by narcissistic virtue-signaling.”
These attacks on a Judeo-Christian “Great Satan” America complement attacks on the “Little Satan” Israel, for Weingarten observes that “Jew-hatred is a key ingredient in the glue that holds the progressive-Islamist axis in the West together.” Omar is thus unremittingly bigoted towards the “collective Jew” Israel, which is actually the “first line of defense of Western civilization against Islamist tyranny” in the “perpetual struggle between civilization and barbarism.” Yet the “preternaturally victimological” Omar “has leveraged criticism of her own bigotry to transform herself from victimizer into victim” and used “Islamophobia” as a “weapon of identity politics” in a “victimological pivot.”
Omar’s own Minneapolis, Minnesota, congressional district in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, where Somali refugees to America congregated, embodies the Islamist-Leftist alliance. “Little Mogadishu” melds here with “college town. Literally adjacent to the looming low-income and subsidized housing towers where many Somalis first settle upon arriving in America are swanky modern condos,” Weingarten reports. In a district that is actually over 60 percent white, the “only thing that would seem to unite the inhabitants” is “overwhelmingly progressive” politics, an example of how “elite opinion” of the “ruling class” promotes her.
In Minneapolis Weingarten documents how “Omar is a symptom of our failings as a country” and “of what happens when a progressive-Islamist axis takes hold,” namely “crime, poverty, and misery—but always with the best of intentions.” The progressive politics that has long-dominated her overwhelmingly Democratic district has proven hollow, as “Omar’s district was recently rated as the worst for black Americans nationally according to numerous socioeconomic criteria.” “Cedar-Riverside has seen a dramatic rise in violent crime, driven by Somali gang warfare,” and, with this Somali population, Minneapolis’ “welcoming progressive bastion…remains the terror capital of the United States.”
Meanwhile Weingarten notes how Omar lives in a “luxury condo in an upscale Minneapolis neighborhood,” a class struggle-hypocrisy well-known throughout the history of socialist totalitarianism, as in her native Somalia. Here her parents actually were “important Communist apparatchiks” of the “ruling class” in Mohamed Siad Barre’s “Marxist-Islamist dictatorship” that emerged in a 1969 military coup and fell into chaos in 1991. Now “Omar appears to have returned to a life of privilege” thanks to another red-green alliance.
Omar has also so far enjoyed a privilege before the law, as revealed by Weingarten’s collated evidence of numerous scandals including violating congressional rules on book payments. She “is outspoken on everything but the personal behavior that has implicated her in all manner of potential crimes,” he writes, such as the copious indications that she briefly married her brother in an immigration fraud. Her complicated personal life of marriages, divorces, and affairs has involved office payments to lovers and the filing of joint tax returns with a man with whom she merely had a Muslim, but not a legal, marriage.
Correspondingly, Omar would probably fail standard government security clearance background checks, yet Weingarten notes that this does not concern Omar and other members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC). With this plum appointment by congressional Democrats to a position handling classified information, she “poses a significant threat to America’s national security interests” concerning the “most sensitive matters of war and peace.” Her numerous ties to her native Somalia and in Turkey’s Islamist dictatorship as well as Muslim Brotherhood-aligned groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) only heighten these dangers.
Weingarten analyzes Omar in a wider context where the “Left is effectively accepting an ethos of national self-hatred” and “self-immolation.” The radicalized “Democratic Party is no longer the Party of John F. Kennedy or Bill Clinton” and has “no more Scoop Jacksons.” The “Elephant in the Room: Democrats are Trading Jewish Votes for Muslim Votes” especially contrasts as “conservatives and Republicans…demonstrate by word and deed that they are America’s preeminent philo-Semites.”
Weingarten urgently concludes with a warning about the “simmering civil war” that endangers America, “man’s last, best hope on Earth.” “Progressive orthodoxy prevails across our core institutions” and has “never been more widely represented in our national politics.” Yet faced with Omar and her allies, embattled conservatives often respond with “suicidal rules of engagement.”
Conservatives, Weingarten accurately observes, “cannot expect to win political elections one day every two years if we are losing elections for the American Mind every other day of every year.” Particularly free speech requires defense as the “first pillar the progressive elites and Islamists alike seek to abolish” so “there can be no competition in the War of Ideas.” In this war against the Islamist-Leftist alliance Weingarten’s complete takedown of the American ingrate Omar has made an admirable contribution.
RichardL says
I think she is toast. She is even more disgusting than her fellow jihadis Ellison and Tlaib.
Steve says
No you are wrong. She will survive.
Muslim
Female
Person of Color
Democrat
and the fact neither the DOJ, FBI, or Barr will do a darn thing.
Suck it up Infidel.
James says
I agree. In Minneapolis the Dems are the dominant political force, and they back her, so she can go on doing all the charming things she likes to do without fear of punishment. The Dems are morally superior, so they can do as they please.
Jeanette406 says
I believe she won’t be re-elected. Her own community is turning on her because she’s gone too far. Having an affair with a white American, divorcing her Muslim husband to be with an infidel, and moving to an upscale neighborhood, away from her people can not be sitting well with them. It was one of her own that came forward and confirmed she had married her brother.
gravenimage says
Muslims would likely only vote against her is another Muslims was also running.
PRCS says
There is another Muslim running for that office.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/16/republican-muslim-refugee-dalia-al-aqidi-announces-shes-running-against-ilhan-omar/
But she’s white, uncovered….
gravenimage says
Thanks for that information, PRCS.
Brian Hoff says
She will be reelected her new huhanr convert to Islam. That man was not than conmutry leader. Many people from the communely want to kill him
gravenimage says
Who is “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–babbling about killing now?
gravenimage says
Right now Ilhan Omar’s approval rating is 8%.
Rob says
Plus the Boston bombers
James says
I live parts of the year in Minneapolis, and multiculturalism does not seem to me to have improved the city. I liked it before when it was not multicultural. I cannot understand why immigrants do not adopt the practices and culture of their host country but instead demand that it change and become like their own. country. I do not know why leftists idealize such people. Ordinary people have to meet all sorts of standards and do not have the privileges and benefits that such people enjoy. What makes these sorts of people better and more privileged than others? Is that because they enjoy intersectionality? Were they so oppressed by white privilege that the left has to compensate them by picking on ordinary citizens? I hope the liberals take her place in Congress away. They took Bernie Sanders’ chances to be their candidate away, why cannot they do that to her? If her religions is so meritorious, why cannot they find any candidates that act and think normally? Why cannot she conform to the normal decency of an American? Is she better?
Jeanette406 says
I live in a community that took in a lot of Laotians in the 70’s followed by Russians. There were certainly growing pains with each group, but they have both adapted and become productive, hardworking members of our community. But with the possibility of Muslims being resettled here many of us are slamming on the brakes knowing how so many do not even try to assimilate.
Carolyne says
Is she better? No quite the reverse. In fact, she is a waste of space.
Wellington says
“Is she better?”
PerIslamthink, most definitely. Muslims are “the best of peoples.” {3:110}
James Lincoln says
James, you are making way too much sense…
Michael Copeland says
“The interests of Muslims coincide with the interests of the Socialists in the war against the Crusaders.”
Osama bin Laden
audiotape message, Al Jazeera TV, Reuters 14 February 2003
Deanne says
Tolerating those who hate us is an Obama policy we MUST ABOLISH NOW! America shouldn’t be allies with anyone from the middles east except Israel, we have the best economy in the world and is energy independent & don’t need Saudi’s help or any nation that practices sharia, period. America shouldn’t be helping sharia supporters to fight with our own planes or any weapons , PERIOD.
NO SUCH THINGS AS “PEACEFUL” , “MODERATES”,”COPYCATS” OR “LONE WOLVES”! They are all one in the same according to their own sharia ideology.
FACT…
All cultures are NOT equal and anyone who respects a culture who bases their entire ideology & laws on “HONOR KILLINGS”(killing their own children for shaming their family), stoning women to death, 8 yo. child brides, rape, marital rape, molestation, pedophilia and torture is to say that you respect the atrocities that it perpetrates. They can call themselves, al qaeda, boko haram, isis,devout, moderates, etc., the COMMON DENOMINATOR is ALWAYS SHARIA which violates our Constitution, breaks every single LAW in America and should not be on American soil.All cultures CANNOT COEXIST & that’s why every nation has borders & laws. REENACT the NATIONALITY & IMMIGRATION ACT of 1952…
What defines a religion from a cult is what happens when you try to leave either one:#ExposeSharia
PS- there are NO “lone wolves” or “copycats” when it comes to the SHARIA IDEOLOGY
#WorldwideCrusaders
James Lincoln says
+1
Jaydam says
The same is happening in the U.K with the alliance of the left ( The Labour Party ) with their Muslim friends, who have a shared hatred of the Jews.
Which has been exposed time and time again in the MSM over the last couple of years,
even though Communist Corbyn and his cronies have the nerve to keep denying it.
The British public in the 2019 general election saw through all the lies, and called them out
for what they are, which led to Labour’s worst election defeat since 1935.
Now there is a new contest to find a new leader who will come out with all the same BS, and
Think they can pull the wool over the public in 4 years time. #DreamOn
Deanne says
Just because she married an American doesn’t exempt her from illegally coming here in the first place by marrying her brother so she should still be deported and her hubby can go with her if he chooses but she must be held accountable for her fraud.
RonaldB says
The alliance between Islam and the left has firm philosophical basis.
Cultural Marxism, currently predominant on the left, takes the view that the current social and political order is what prevents a Marxist takeover. According to CM doctrine, the workers are besotted with loyalty to their nation and culture, and thus reject the Communist takeover which ought to spontaneously occur. Thus, the CM goal is to smash the present culture at all costs.
Similarly, the philosophy of jihad, as expounded by Malik, The Quranic Concept of War, https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxraXRtYW50dnxneDo1M2IzMDIzN2Y2MmFkMWFh
mandates that the groundwork of jihad is laid by making citizens lose confidence in their government. The theory is, once they lose their sense of security, they’ll turn to Islam for protection.
The left and Islam will be partners for the foreseeable future, until victory. The Islamists will then kill the leftists, but that is not our concern.
Immigrants, particularly Islamic immigrants, form strong, political identity groups of great power and influence. The only way out is to retool our idea of representative government. Not everyone should be allowed to vote; not all immigrants should be allowed to vote. Do away with birthright citizenship. Most people know the drill. It’s possible to live alongside disenfranchised people and protect their individual rights, without allowing them a vote in the government.
Incidentally, Islam as such is not particularly anti-Semitic. They like their Jews subservient, as they like all non-Muslims, but Jews have been allowed to exist in peace and prosperity in many or most Muslim countries. They dislike Israel, not because it’s Jewish, but because the Jews are uppity and insist on maintaining their own government on what was once Muslim territory. Calling Omar anti-Semitic because she takes every opportunity to bash Israel is a cheap and dishonest shot at trying to strip Jewish voters away from the Democrats.
Forget the antiSemitism canard, and oppose Omar because she’s profoundly anti-American, profoundly leftist (up to a point) and profoundly Islamist.
James Lincoln says
RonaldB
Interesting post, lots of good points made…
gravenimage says
Ronald B, the idea that Islam is not antisemitic and that Jews are treated just fine so long as they are not in positions of power does not hold water.
Read Maimonedes, or look up treatment of Jews in pre-Israel Middle East–it’s not pretty. There was a case in Yemen of the penalty for the killing of a Jew by a Muslim there, and the penalty was the tit-for-tat murder of one of the perpetrator’s Jews.
RonaldB says
Huh? “Penalty was tthe tit-for-tat murder of one of the perpetrator’s Jews”? Doesn’t make much sense to me.
Notice that Maimonedes fled Spain, which had been taken over by a radical sect of Muslims. But, instead of fleeing to Europe, he fled to Syria, where a more moderate Muslim government was in power.
I wasn’t arguing that Jews were always treated just fine by the Muslims. I argued that they were tolerated and even protected by many Muslim rulers, and that the Jews were not treated worse than other non-Muslims.
I also hold to my belief that the Muslims hate Israel more as a representative of non-Muslim people taking over a Muslim land, than because Israel is Jewish. As I’ve pointed out before, Iran tolerates and protects an Orthodox Jewish community. At the same time they threaten to burn Israel.
So, for the record and to repeat myself: simply because Israel upsets Muslims is not a reason for Israel to give in to Muslims. But, I wish to understand the truth, and in my opinion, the truth is that the Muslims are as much a threat to the non-Jewish West as to Jewish Israel.
I feel that the defenders of Israel are taking the easy way out when they accuse anti-Israeli Muslims of being antisemitic. It’s a lazy way of avoid a more complex argument, and it doesn’t do the West any favors.
gravenimage says
RonaldB wrote:
Huh? “Penalty was the tit-for-tat murder of one of the perpetrator’s Jews”? Doesn’t make much sense to me.
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Why would this not make sense to you? Muslims treated this not as the murder of a man who happened to be Jewish, but as robbing his Muslim owner of labor. So the sentence was to rob the perpetrator of one of his own Jewish laborers.
Muslims do *not* respect the lives of Infidels.
You may think that Jews and others are “taking the easy way out” for daring to note that Islam teaches the hatred of Jews. Would you also think that I am “taking the easy way out” for noting that Islam hates women and all Infidels?
RonaldB says
For Gravenimage”
“You may think that Jews and others are “taking the easy way out” for daring to note that Islam teaches the hatred of Jews. Would you also think that I am “taking the easy way out” for noting that Islam hates women and all Infidels?”
I have argued in different postings here that the real root of Muslim antipathy to Israel is not that there are Jews in Israel, but that the Jews in Israel have established a non-Muslim government in a land once ruled by Muslims. You and I have already argued about the Jews in Iran: the very Muslim Iranian rulers protect the Iranian Jewish community and allows it to flourish, because the Iranian Jews are careful to be subservient to the Muslims.
I argue the Muslims are as dangerous to the Christian, non-Jewish West as to the Jews in Israel. It is a red herring to focus energy on the supposed antisemitism of Muslims. They are as dangerous to non-Jews as to Jews. By the way, for real persecution, look at the Muslim treatment of Hindus, who are not even given the protection of dhimmihood.
As an observation, the biggest factor in US relations with Israel is the continuation of fracking. Fracking allows the US to be completely free of any Saudi pressures. The Democrats want to stop fracking, and offshore drilling, which would put us right back into dependence on the oil kingdoms of the Middle East.
I think the tendency to yell “antisemitism” when Muslims act against Israel is to downplay the general danger posed by Muslims to the West in general. Israel is now a successful, independent country with a first-class economy and military. It’s time to get away from get away from hiding behind the skirts of antisemitism, so to speak.
commonsense says
RonaldB argues that Islam is not particularly antisemitic. Nonsense. Numerous Koranic passages condemn Jews – even more than other non-Muslims – and prescribe hatred and loathing toward them by all believers. According to this authoritative book, the literal Word of Allah himself, Jews are even despised by God. Robert Spencer has, on many occasions, cited these Koranic imprecations against Jews, providing chapter and verse in every instance. And one must not forget the canonical hadith, found in both al-Bukhari and Muslim (e.g. Muslim, Bk. 41, #6985), which states that, per Muhammed, Muslims are obligated to slaughter all Jews as a sine qua non for the advent of Judgment Day.
RonaldB also writes that Jews have been allowed to live in peace and prosperity in many, even most, Muslim countries. He is correct, up to a point. The Jews of Islam were at times not actively persecuted, depending on the rulers in power. There were wealthy Jews in Damascus and elsewhere, and some Syrian Jews were, in the 19th and early 20th century, even officially exempt from paying the jizya. However, at other times, when rulers adopted stricter adherence to Islam, Jews were severely persecuted, and at virtually all times and in most of the Islamic world, the vast majority of Jews were poor and marginalized, their collective lot being somewhat alleviated after European colonialism began in the Maghreb and elsewhere. Even Jews who were materially well-off remained vulnerable, as exemplified by the report of a British official in Turkey before WW I. He was speaking to a Jewess, who was being pelted with stones by young Muslim brats during the conversation. Under Turkish law, whether de jure or de facto, she, as a Jew, was powerless to defend herself. The British official was outraged but was himself unable to help her. This was what life was like even for relatively privileged Jews in Ottoman Turkey and elsewhere. To learn more, read “The Jews of Islam” by Bernard Lewis.
Lastly, RonaldB states that Muslims dislike Israel not because it’s Jewish but because the Israeli Jews are uppity and insist on having their own government on what was once Muslim territory. Is RB suggesting that Israel should be a Muslim vassal state, with its Jews ceding governmental control back to Muslims, who would doubtless implement Sharia, restoring dhimmitude to Israeli Jews? I find this illogical in the extreme.
RonaldB says
Your reply is more-or-less balanced, with some exceptions. I didn’t argue that Jews were completely safe in Muslim countries; I said they were on a par with other non-Muslims: protected while subservient. And yes, like Christians, the situation for Jews could change under Muslims without much legal recourse.
The Hadith verse on killing Jews is one thing; Koranic incitement to kill Jews is another. There is nothing in Sharia law that mandates killing subservient (dhimmi) Jews.
I’m arguing that antisemitism is not a good hook to oppose Islam.
As for Jewish Israel, I’ll send you $1000 if you can find where I said the Jews in Israel should surrender. I said the Muslims were mad because the uppity Jews in Israel didn’t recognize Muslim rule. That’s true. I didn’t say I thought the Jews in Israel should give into the Muslims. That’s your conclusion, and a highly erroneous one it is.
commonsense says
RB, several points:
I do not deny that dhimmis are, theoretically, protected under Sharia, provided they comply with the numerous restrictions, taxes, and abasements imposed under Islamic law. However, the especial Islamic hatred of Jews, the basis of which is both historical (i.e. the Arabian Jews’ rejection of Muhammed as a prophet) and religious, serves as a powerful countervailing force, resulting in eruptive violent actions against Jews throughout their history within Muslim domains, even if individuals or local communities had not violated the terms of the dhimma. The ultimate fate of the Jews, of course, (as per the genocidal hadith cited in my earlier comment) is to be murdered by Muslims during the End Times and then consigned to the Fire for their numerous iniquities, all cited in the Koran, hadiths, and Sira. No other group of unbelievers is targeted for destruction in this manner; Christians, polytheists, and so-called “hypocrites” are to be judged and punished solely by Allah and his supernatural agents such as Issa, the Mahdi, and so forth. Since Muhammed, per the narrator Abu Huraira, mandates that Muslims themselves must slay the Jews, it can be understood why Muslim zealots may well think it unnecessary to wait until The Hour to engage in slaughter of Jews, Sharia and dhimma regulations notwithstanding.
Secondly, I see you have clarified your original statement, in which you seemed to be saying, as a general statement, that Israeli Jews are uppity, which Muslims find distasteful and contributes to anti-Israel sentiments. I now understand that what you meant is that Muslims perceive Israeli Jews as upstarts who have the temerity to have established a sovereign state on what had been Muslim-held territory for centuries, which is, to them, intolerable. So we really have no disagreement on this point, I think.
While I still disagree with a few of your assertions, I confess that I always read your comments when they appear, and find them to be thoughtful and intelligent.
commonsense says
Correction: I meant Zoroastrians and Magians, not polytheists, who were to be judged solely by Allah. Polytheists cannot be included among the People of the Book, and are not eligible for protection under the dhimma.
gravenimage says
Good posts, commonsense.
RonaldB says
Your post is interesting, rational, and good reading. I’m not sure I take an apocalyptic vision of Muslims killing Jews as evidence of Muslim anti-Semitism. Look at the treatment of the Christians and Yazidi by the ISIS state, which claimed to be acting under strict Islamic law.
My point is that I prefer to focus on the Muslim threat to the US and Western civilization; it’s singularly unproductive to argue the antisemitism of Muslims. The consequences are real: major Jewish groups oppose any sort of Muslim ban on immigration to the US. I mean, mainstream Jewish groups. https://urj.org/blog/2017/01/28/reform-movement-denounces-president-trumps-executive-order-barring-entry-several
Like you, I always appreciate a respectful, informed debate.
somehistory says
In the wintertime, snakes slither into the rabbit runs and snuggle up to the innocent bunnies to keep warm.
Snakes have no way of getting warm without this or lying in the sunshine on rocks. The bunnies do not profit in any way from what the snakes do.
When winter is over, the ***ungrateful*** snakes eat the poor bunnies that kept them warm all winter and allowed the snakes to survive.
omar is a snake. She takes and takes and takes…and the only thing this ***ungrateful*** snake gives back is corruption, filth, lies, adultery, giving money illegally to her current husband, etc. She is more than willing to eat the innocent bunnies that have kept her warm.
James Lincoln says
Excellent analogy, somehistory.
It’s a keeper…
somehistory says
Thank you, Mr. Lincoln.
commonsense says
Excellent post, somehistory.
gravenimage says
+1
SB says
She will bitch, piss, and moan about this country; but gary-own-tee you, she will never leave it.
Pray she will never get voted in again to serve a country she hates.
James Lincoln says
SB,
Omar realizes that she could never get away with what she is currently doing in the United States – back in her native Somalia.
I would gladly buy her a one-way ticket back…
SB says
Plus, I believe that anyone who lives here willingly and hates this country, is not an American!
gravenimage says
New Book Exposes American Ingrate Ilhan Omar
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Kudos to Benjamin Weingarten! The title of this book is spot on.
RonaldB says
The most disturbing thing is not the profound anti-Americanism or deep corruption of some of the members of Congress. The disturbing fact is that their constituents, largely immigrant Muslim like them, share their anti-American views. So, all the exposes are not necessarily going to get Omar out of office. Her constituents don’t care. The more anti-American and corrupting of the present system, the better.
I”m not going to preach about immigration because most of the Jihad Watch readers agree with me. We do have to accept the fact that the more immigration, legal and illegal, the more divided the country. We will have to learn to live with, or at least deal with, a country divided not only ethnically, but in its view of government and individual liberties.
Huh!?! says
+1 and when does she get deported. The infidel West and U.S. sure has been good to her.
RonaldB says
Good deeds are seen by Omar and her cohorts as signs of weakness, rather than as favors to be returned. The more we do for Omar and her people, the more they despise us.
Good luck on deporting her. She engaged in immigration fraud, bigamy, tax fraud, and campaign violations. Nothing has happened to her. She’s still in Congress. Democrats seem to be immune from criminal charges or prosecution. FBI officials lie and perjure themselves to the courts, and don’t get prosecuted. I don’t blame Trump for being mad at Sessions. Sessions allowed a minor imbroglio to make him recuse himself from one of the most significant investigations in US history. And yet, Hillary is find putting classified material on her phone and server, and deleting 33,000 emails under subpoena. There’s a total disconnect between how the law is applied for leftists and how it is employed for (mainly white) conservatives.
gravenimage says
There are also idiots who swallow the ludicrous claims that Ilhan Omar is “progressive”.
OLD GUY says
Boy that title describes Omar perfectly. How sad I and so many others have served this country, and worked hard to get ahead without drawing free money or education or welfare/free housing and yet we would all serve this country again with pride. It is sickening to see people like her elected to government office with no love or pride in the country she is supposed to serve. Shame on her.