Are we the first to notice Senator Mark Dayton’s stuttering problem? (We’ll answer ourselves: not really.) After a recent self-funded trip to China, the nearly-former Senator stuttered the details of his trip to MPR (audio) yesterday. The trip included watching Chinese workers make Nike shoes for 70 cents a day and addressed China’s impending “world economic domination” by undercutting the U.S. — and pretty much every one else — on labor and product costs. The interview is insightful but, as usual, made me nervous about how dominating China will be in the future if our U.S. consumerism culture continues to explode. Chinese anyone?
Trip to Ch-Ch-Ch-China
Aug 17 2005 — 2:00am
5 Reader Comments
3:12 pm
I DID notice the way he was speaking, although my impression is that he was just fumbling and mumbling along because Gary Eichten was asking him questions that he didn’t know the answers to or didn’t want to answer. Whatever the reason, I wasn’t real impressed with his answers. Went to China and all he could come up with is “China is big, and it has a lot of people”. Okay, not a direct quote, but come on man, you toured a Nike plant where workers were making less than a buck a day to make $100US shoes, and had nothing to say about the US/China trade relations relative to labor in the U.S.?
3:19 pm
The man has health problems. Be kind.
3:25 pm
what health problems does dayton have? (i like the guy – and was surprised to hear his voice.)
11:17 am
You like him? Really? That surprises me.
11:58 pm
stuttering is a health problem, dude.
no one knows i’m a stutterer any more, but i still gotta think thru every freakin word before i talk. yea, it blows. big time.
dayton’s tough to listen to — but i still think he’s done a pretty good job as our senior senator (minus the feingold bashing).