Thursday, May 29, 2008

Does anyone still care what goes on behind the scenes of the Hillary campaign?

From The Daily News:

Rep. Anthony Weiner, a likely 2009 mayoral candidate, is pouring his heart into Hillary Clinton's White House bid - literally.

Weiner, whose district includes parts of Queens and Brooklyn, finally 'fessed that he is romancing Clinton's glamorous "body woman," Huma Abedin.

Asked by The Associated Press about all the time he's spending on the road campaigning for Clinton, the 43-year-old bachelor said, "It's largely because I'm dating Huma."

The whispers have been around for months, but until yesterday Weiner ducked questions about Abedin, saying his personal life was off limits.

Though she posed recently for a glamorous photo spread in Vogue, Abedin, 32, is famously press-shy.

The New York Observer, in a long profile last year, called her "a sort of mythical figure" who never has a hair out of place or a wrinkle in her Prada suit and can hush a crowd of rambunctious reporters with a single look.

"I think there's some dispute as to whether Huma's actually human or not," an admiring Weiner said then.

Abedin was born in Michigan to a Pakistani mother and an Indian father and was raised in Saudi Arabia.

She landed an internship in the First Lady's office in 1996 and quickly become her indispensable right hand.

If I came even remotely close to giving a damn I would say that the relationship between Weiner and Huma is a red herring cooked up to deflect speculation that Huma is Senator Clinton's lesbian lover.

Weiner has the look of one of those androgynous geldings which are the only kind of man (other than "out" homosexuals) who Hillary will tolerate in her personal space (other than Bill, whom she tranked herself up and copulated with enough times to produce Chelsea because having at least one child was politically useful*) .

I would point out that this would not be the first time that such a sham arrangement was made to keep up appearances (although it has traditionally been a powerful man finding a lesser man to pretend to be the husband or boyfriend of his mistress).

But like I said, I don't even come remotely close to giving a damn.

*This assumes that Bill is Chelsea's father because there are rumors that Webb Hubble is Chelsea's real dad. This is backed up by the extraordinary physical resemblance Chelsea has to Hubble (go here to see for yourself).