Wednesday - February 07, 2007

Category Image Watergate


I imagine that people coming to voting age now think of Monica Lewinski the same way I think of Watergate; it's one of those things that people older than me think is much more significant than I do. I vaguely remember Nixon being president and extremely popular before the scandal, and I remember him resigning, but I don't really remember much first hand about it because I was too young. Talk about Watergate bores me and frankly always has. It's over with, who cares?

So, I can't say that I have followed it very closely, but like any reasonable well-informed person I can't have helped to learn a thing or two about it.

Today I was listening to NPR and heard an amazing fact that I've never heard mentioned before and often wondered about. The man who engineered the burglary has died and released his memoirs. The amazing fact I learned is just why the burglary was staged.

Perhaps those more aware than I think this is ho hum, but I learned that there was intelligence that the Soviets were funding the democrat party (I have decided to no longer call them the democratic party only because they seem to take offense over such trivialities and it's always fun to bother sensitive pedants). The burglar, whose name is uninteresting to me, was quoted as saying that he doesn't regret the job because if they had found the proof that the Soviets were funding the democrats, then it would have been a very good thing for the country to learn of it. That the proof was not found only means that essentially he is a casualty of the cold war and accepts his fate.

I find this fascinating. I've been speculating for years that the democrat party has been overtaken by communists controlled by the communist international, and I'm not privy to applicable intelligence on the matter. I find this piece of news to be strongly supporting that theory, but still a bit shy of confirming it positively.

The communists would be smart enough to not be blatant about funding the democrat party, so it wouldn't surprise me that burglars didn't find proof of it at the democrat campaign headquarters. I still wonder why Bill Clinton went to Moscow for a few months, just like so many Soviet operatives are known to have done so.

I wonder why this suspicion wasn't played up in the press more than it has been. Of course the democrat party wouldn't want this to be too public and they have had pretty solid control of the press since FDR's days, so it's understandable how it was stifled.

Watergate is still boring to me. It's still fascinating only to people who think of the 70's as good days rather than the economic, cultural and fashion disaster they were.

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