Rep. Ilhan Omar's feistiness divides Democrats, delights Republicans
by Clarence Page
Mar 12, 2019
3 minutes
W.C. Fields' famous line, "I am free of all prejudices; I hate everyone equally," sounded like a new motto for Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota's rising Democratic firebrand, when she took a verbal poke at, of all people, former President Barack Obama.
Omar, the first Somali-American in Congress, became the media's flavor of the week for comments she made about U.S. policy toward Israel that even some Democrats called anti-Semitic for her use of old anti-Jewish stereotypes
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