Comments on: Who was the worst offender in Lakeville–the questioner or the candidate? http://minnesotaindependent.com/12878/who-was-the-worst-offender-in-lakeville-the-questioner-or-the-candidate News. Politics. Media. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Debbie http://minnesotaindependent.com/12878/who-was-the-worst-offender-in-lakeville-the-questioner-or-the-candidate/comment-page-1#comment-15900 Debbie Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:08:49 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=12878#comment-15900 Lets just say the people driving into that McCain "town hall" were looking for a fight. I was with a small group of alternate thinkers across from the school carrying our innocuous signs, like.."How is your 401k?" We were called communists,stupid, given the finger and well you can just imagine. These are the same people I probably sit next to in church and in line at the grocery store. NICE. Lets just say the people driving into that McCain “town hall” were looking for a fight. I was with a small group of alternate thinkers across from the school carrying our innocuous signs, like..”How is your 401k?” We were called communists,stupid, given the finger and well you can just imagine. These are the same people I probably sit next to in church and in line at the grocery store. NICE.

]]> By: Marti http://minnesotaindependent.com/12878/who-was-the-worst-offender-in-lakeville-the-questioner-or-the-candidate/comment-page-1#comment-14348 Marti Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:02:29 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=12878#comment-14348 Depressingly enough, this is pretty much what a discussion with my mother is like: lots of broad, generalized, meaningless, scared, uninformed statements. Depressingly enough, this is pretty much what a discussion with my mother is like: lots of broad, generalized, meaningless, scared, uninformed statements.

]]> By: ann http://minnesotaindependent.com/12878/who-was-the-worst-offender-in-lakeville-the-questioner-or-the-candidate/comment-page-1#comment-14171 ann Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:27:40 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=12878#comment-14171 McCain's response just shows what type of person he was. There will always be ignorant racist Americans but McCain showed what a racist he is and the Corporate Media also showed how racist they are. I"m so glad with Zogby's response. McCain’s response just shows what type of person he was. There will always be ignorant racist Americans but McCain showed what a racist he is and the Corporate Media also showed how racist they are. I”m so glad with Zogby’s response.

]]> By: Publiuuus http://minnesotaindependent.com/12878/who-was-the-worst-offender-in-lakeville-the-questioner-or-the-candidate/comment-page-1#comment-14158 Publiuuus Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:42:15 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=12878#comment-14158 Too late, too disingenuous. Too strategically important. Voters will now be able to go to the polls and vote against: 1) the black guy, 2) the Arab, 3) the Muslim, 4) the terrorist, 5) the socialist, 6) the Anti-Christ, 7) the....well, you get the point. This was anything but an accident. Too late, too disingenuous. Too strategically important. Voters will now be able to go to the polls and vote against: 1) the black guy, 2) the Arab, 3) the Muslim, 4) the terrorist, 5) the socialist, 6) the Anti-Christ, 7) the….well, you get the point. This was anything but an accident.

]]> By: jonerik http://minnesotaindependent.com/12878/who-was-the-worst-offender-in-lakeville-the-questioner-or-the-candidate/comment-page-1#comment-14151 jonerik Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:45:43 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=12878#comment-14151 The comment was racist and off base and McCain's response was way lame and really backhandedly insulting to Arabs. But the fact he sort of called this woman on her racist, inappropriate comment was picked up by the rest of the people there who did applaud McCain's reaction. McCain should take that as a cue that his supporters do not want to see his campaign dragged down into bigotry. He should rein in Palin and start controlling his own tongue. The comment was racist and off base and McCain’s response was way lame and really backhandedly insulting to Arabs. But the fact he sort of called this woman on her racist, inappropriate comment was picked up by the rest of the people there who did applaud McCain’s reaction. McCain should take that as a cue that his supporters do not want to see his campaign dragged down into bigotry. He should rein in Palin and start controlling his own tongue.

]]> By: beryl k gullsgate http://minnesotaindependent.com/12878/who-was-the-worst-offender-in-lakeville-the-questioner-or-the-candidate/comment-page-1#comment-14147 beryl k gullsgate Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:07:37 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=12878#comment-14147 So now we've got this Minnesota gothic image embedded on the public register? Call it racism. Call it bigotry. Call it stupidity. But recognize it for what it is essentially. It is hate with its rayon hose, rolled. Yes, it is racism rolled down to the ankles folks. Orthopedic hate raising it's antiquated face, again, in this new century. It is hatred of "the other" Bigotry carelessly reaffirming what some may have assumed was dead...but it was "just away", as they say...and still alive in Lakeville? Out-state Minnesota will be graced - if that is the right word - by Alaska's "shadow governor", Todd Palin this week; vooming up his snowmobile ethics all across the upper part of the state. Racism will rise again I suppose. We haven't changed that much, sorry to say. But ignore it and it won't just go away. Who's going to win the race on racism this time? Human rights, civil rights are on the block in nice Minnesota? Will the voters throw the Bill of Rights in a roadside rest station as 'race' goes speeding by with Todd 'the exterminator' revving up the engines in northern Minnesota? Will there be another Lakeville incident? Whose face will be the next Republican-retro-poster child for Minnesota? Another hate-monger? I hope not. One face of ignorance,hate,bigotry,racism...is enough already. So now we’ve got this Minnesota gothic image embedded on the public register? Call it racism. Call it bigotry. Call it stupidity. But recognize it for what it is essentially. It is hate with its rayon hose, rolled.

Yes, it is racism rolled down to the ankles folks. Orthopedic hate raising it’s antiquated face, again, in this new century. It is hatred of “the other” Bigotry carelessly reaffirming what some may have assumed was dead…but it was “just away”, as they say…and still alive in Lakeville?

Out-state Minnesota will be graced – if that is the right word – by Alaska’s “shadow governor”, Todd Palin this week; vooming up his snowmobile ethics all across the upper part of the state. Racism will rise again I suppose. We haven’t changed that much, sorry to say. But ignore it and it won’t just go away.

Who’s going to win the race on racism this time? Human rights, civil rights are on the block in nice Minnesota? Will the voters throw the Bill of Rights in a roadside rest station as ‘race’ goes speeding by with Todd ‘the exterminator’ revving up the engines in northern Minnesota? Will there be another Lakeville incident?

Whose face will be the next Republican-retro-poster child for Minnesota? Another hate-monger? I hope not. One face of ignorance,hate,bigotry,racism…is enough already.

]]> By: Erica M http://minnesotaindependent.com/12878/who-was-the-worst-offender-in-lakeville-the-questioner-or-the-candidate/comment-page-1#comment-14146 Erica M Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:40:47 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=12878#comment-14146 My initial reaction was the same as Zogby's. McCain's response of "he’s a decent family man and citizen" implies that Arabs are NOT that. And it was a lame response anyway after all the race-baiting his campaign's been doing. My initial reaction was the same as Zogby’s. McCain’s response of “he’s a decent family man and citizen” implies that Arabs are NOT that.

And it was a lame response anyway after all the race-baiting his campaign’s been doing.

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