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| Senator's "Thing" Exposed in Snowstorm |
| 2009-02-04 |
| Voters won't have to worry about Senator Richard Burr pulling a Tom Daschle. The gentleman from North Carolina pulled away from the Capitol yesterday in a 1974 VW Thing he's owned for 18 years. And here's the thing -- he drove with the top down in the middle of a snowstorm. The only time Daschle drove himself was during his 1986 campaign video ... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 From what I remember it wasn't the safest thing on the road either. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-04 20:28 |
| #3 VW came out with this clone of the WWII German 2WD military equivalent of the jeep in the early 70's. Looked like fun but was a bit impractical and expensive for me at the time. |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-02-04 18:05 |
| #2 Oh, a _VW_ thing. My kind generally don't associate with Senators or other riff-raff. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-04 17:26 |
| #1 Oh, it's a car. I thought Senator Kennedy had gotten loose during yesterday's snowstorm... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-04 17:11 |