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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Jeff, Did you get a certificate as a special interpreter of magical mystery meanings of words. Alt-Vocab?

From Politico: Omar says the 'hope and change' offered by Barack Obama was a mirage. Recalling the caging of kids at thenU.S.-Mexico border and the 'droning of countries around the world on Obama's watch, she argues rhat the Democrstic president operatws within the same fundamentally beoken framework of his Republican successor.

"We can't only be upset with Trump...his policies are bad but many of the people who came before him...blah, blah blah."[/quote]

I actually have no problem with what she says there. I will say that if you listen to the audio she didn't say "mirage". In the audio it goes more like, "I will talk about family separation or the caging of kids and people will say 'this was Obama' or I will talk about the droning of countries around the world and people will say 'that was Obama'. All of that is very true. But what it happening now is very different." She doesn't say anything about a "fundamentally broken framework".

There are two issues here:

1) Did Omar accurately point to policies of Obama that are similar to things for which Trump is criticized? Yes, and I agree with her.

2) Did she call Obama a murderer? No. Though it is true that Obama was responsible for ex-judicial killings of American citizens.
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