Lakeville - Oh, boy...

[JfortheDonks]

You have just made big time asses out of yourselves by showing your prejudice on national tv at the McCain Town Hall Meeting. Nice, lol!

[dflprincess]

1. I'm sure not everyone there was from Lakeville.

My aunt has lived there for 50 years just down the road from Lakeville South. She was threatening to go out and scatter nails all over the highway, but she was afraid she'd incovenience her neighbors.

[JfortheDonks]

4. Yeah, I Know What You're Saying There

I have relatives in Lakeville, too, who are Republicans, and my aunt's one grand daughter was there today because she goes to that school and had tickets. My aunt asked me if I was going, and I told her, "No! I'm not a Republican." Lol! They know that I am not, but always try to talk me into voting GOP. I have always voted for a DFL President in every election since I was able to vote. Anyway, how embarassing for Lakeville!!!

[dodger501]

9. No, they weren't

That goofy old bat was from Shakopee. She was interviewed by both the Strib and Dana Bash of CNN afterward and kept repeating the same old talk radio bullshit, even after being corrected by the reporter.
We can't pin this on Lakeville alone but that video is now viral, it makes all of us Minnesotans look like idiots.
Damn it all, though . . .

[nadine_mn]

2. I have never been more embarrassed for my state than I was today...even Michelle

"bat shit crazy" Bachmann molesting Bush was better than see the racists shit in Lakeville

[JfortheDonks]

3. What Is Our Country Coming To

When we have to show ignorance like that - prejudice in America, a melting pot of races, religions, cultures, diversity?! It's absolutely inexcusable!!! And, I have relatives who live in Lakeville, and were at that today!!! I am the outcast of the family - the Democrat. Anyway, I talked to my aunt this afternoon about an hour before McCain was starting at 4P, and she asked me if I was going. Lol! I told her, "No! I'm not a Republican!" Her one grand daughter goes to that school and had tickets. How embarassing for Lakeville is all I can say!!!

[nadine_mn]

5. great..all the news this morning is "crowd at MN rally boo McCain for defending Obama"

Nice shining moment MN

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I never thought a McCain/Palin KKK-style rally would occur in Minnesota.

I assumed those were happening only in the South. Boy, was I wrong. I knew we had some racist assholes here, but I didn't expect them to come out of the woodwork like that. My apologies to the South. Way to go, Lakeville.

[nadine_mn]

7. Well there was the lynching in Duluth

and when I was at Univ of MN, Morris in 93 the wrestling coach took the freshmen African-American wrestlers out to a field where the seniors had a cross burning and were dressed up like KKK members.... it was called a halloween "prank"

so I know that there are pockets of racism - but man yesterday's rally really showed how ugly MN "nice" really is

[CatholicEdHead]

8. Other vestigates still live on in western Minnesota

I think somewhere around Detroit Lakes, I think Perham still have the sirens at sunset even today. That was the signal long ago for all non-whites to be out of the city by dark. Since MLK obvious racism has been driven mostly underground but still pops up every so often.

[dflprincess]

10. We can take some comfort in knowing that there were only about 2200 people

at this thing which is about all the venue will hold. I understand they were still trying to give away tickets Friday morning so it's not like there were a lot of people left standing outside (like there were when Obama filled the Xcel Center.) And we can also take some comfort in the fact that McCain's campaign is faltering so badly he can only draw about 2,500 people this close to the election. This hardly seems like the best use of campaign resources.

Still, it is embarassing and I also apologize for assuming everyone in the south was like the ones we saw on TV when we were kids.

[Zookeeper]

11. Oh yeah. I just cringed when I realized the event took place...

in Minnesota.

Ouch!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Is it any coincidence that this horrifying story is from the same area?

Authorities say four men lured a 24-year-old mentally disabled man from his Lakeville home to a remote Dakota County area, where they tortured him for hours on two days last weekend. Criminal complaints say the torture included tying him to a tree, beating him and burning him with cigarette lighters. His mother said she was told he also was tied to a motorcycle and dragged for 200 feet.

The torture ended after he was knocked unconscious and left for dead on the second day.

The four were charged Tuesday in connection with the incidents and were being held in the Dakota County jail. One of those charged is employed by a Northfield organization that works with disabled adults. Authorities say the motive for the assault may involve a 16-year-old girl whom the disabled man had recently befriended.

As Justin Hamilton recovers at home under close medical monitoring, his mother, Carolyn Hamilton, said his body is entirely black and blue. He may lose sight in one eye and has broken ribs and possible kidney damage. But it's the emotional effects on her son, who has fetal alcohol syndrome, that may stay with him the rest of his life, she said.

http://www.startribune.com/local/south/30970669.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr