July 9, 2007 9:31 AM
Having a 1972 flashback? Call a Plumber
Did you hear about the break-in at Sen. Barack Obama's headquarters in Davenport, Iowa, on Friday night?
Two laptop computers and campaign literature were taken in the burglary there, along one of America's most famous bodies of water, in a city that's the eastern gateway to the Hawkeye State.
As if the 2008 presidential contest needed another Watergate flashback...
Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton got her start as a lawyer for the U.S. House of Representatives committee that was drawing up impeachment papers for then-President Richard M. Nixon over the Watergate affair. (CLICK for a cool photo.)
And a Republican-in-waiting, former Sen. Fred Thompson, has gotten uncomfortable scrutiny lately over his role as the Senate Watergate Committee's chief minority counsel.
And now, there's a break-in at Obama's headquarters in Davenport.
You might not care, but our trip down the "Back roads to the White House," actually began in a fifth-floor room at the Watergate Hotel.
An unfortunate vehicle registration issue forced us to spend one last night in Washington, D.C., before hitting the road in April. The hotel's underground parking garage seemed as secure a place as any to leave a car loaded down with a year's worth of laundry, computers, cameras, etc.
Since a cover-up is always worse than the actual crime, we'll come clean right now and admit that we swiped all the stationery and pens that we could before heading down the road for Iowa the next morning.
We're glad we did, because it looks like we'll get lots of chances to use these throw-back souvenirs to jot down Watergate-related notes during the 2008 presidential contest.
July 11, 2007
1:47 PM
M.E. writes:
Awesome tip, Nancy. I'm going to check that out for sure.
Keep the tips coming.
-- The Management
July 11, 2007
8:55 AM
Nancy writes:
The lock picks used in the Watergate break-in are on display at the Herbert Hoover Museum in West Branch, Iowa. The tie Richard Nixon wore on his last day in office is also on display. Fred Fielding in the Bush White House? The Plumbers have returned.
July 9, 2007
9:19 PM
Tyrone writes:
Obama, Clinton, doesn't matter. You can count on a Democrat to hate America, and to be as close to a Communist as Lennin.
A Democrat will do / say anything to get elected. Nixon was nothing compared to any Democrat of Today.
July 9, 2007
12:28 PM
M.E. writes:
Thanks for that delicious image, Doug.
You made us look, and here's what we found:
http://oldgas.com/fillingstation/
-- The Management
July 9, 2007
12:25 PM
Doug Wagner writes:
This was in a fairly decent neighborhood on a busy one-way, main drag kind of street. An interesting place for a theft of that type.
It's right near one of our favorite casual restaurants in D'port, the Filling Station. They serve freshly popped popcorn in old-fashioned oil cans. :)