Clinton visits Portland, Obama heads to Beaverton

So I was riding back from the grocery store, having picked up some breakfast and coffee, and I cam across about 15 police motorcycles parked in the bike lane sideways. Quite annoyed, I stopped and looked around to try and figure out why the Beaverton PD would see fit to block the route I ride between the store and home 3-4 times a week.

Its sort of a side street that cuts across the backside of Tektronics campus which is adjacent to the Nike world headquarters. Its normally dead quite. And then it snapped to together in my brain. Giant charter buses + scads of police + gawkers with mobile phone cameras standing in the street and trolling through the landscaped parking lot islands = politician or diplomat.

They same thing had happened to me two-weeks ago on vacation in Vancouver, British Columbia. And then I remembered that Obama was scheduled to do a invitation only event in Beaverton today.

Obama plans to stop at a Beaverton high-tech firm this morning … Attendance at Obama's Beaverton meeting today is by invitation only, but the other two events tomorrow are open to the public.

I had assumed it would be at Intel, the biggest employer in the county (Nike is #3 behind Intel and the school district) and Tektronics is sort of a massive subcontractor to Intel. Which why they call Beaverton / Hillsboro the Silicon Forest (Nike gets snubbed in the nicknames, but locals here enough about all three companies as it is).

Anyway, I wish it was open to the public, because i would have chained my bike up and wandered in to ask him about all my favorite issues. Oh well.