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To: bentway who wrote (356841)	11/2/2007 2:01:12 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570044

Huma Abedin is the closest of Hillary Clinton's aides. When rumours start to swirl of a sex scandal in American politics, as they are right now, of course such rumours focus on the female politician with such a stunning female aide. Yet there was exactly one member of the wilting delegation who managed, somehow, to stay cool: Hillary Clinton’s mysterious, glamorous and eerily unflappable aide de camp, Huma Abedin. “It was like 110 degrees outside,” recalled the source, a political aide who asked to remain anonymous. “We were all just pouring down with sweat. But I have this distinct memory of Huma traipsing in in this blue pantsuit—it was like this wool pantsuit—not a bead of sweat on her brow, not a hair out of place, with everything perfectly organized in her Yves Saint Laurent handbag.” That sort of fantastical, supernaturally tinged tale is not unusual. Indeed, in the insular world of New York and D.C. politics, Huma Abedin has become a sort of mythical figure. On a day-to-day basis, Ms. Abedin is responsible for guiding the Senator from one chaotic event to the next and ensuring that the many hundreds of situations that arise at each—the photo ops, the handshakes, the speeches—go smoothly. The job of “body person”—industry-speak for the catchall role of an omnipresent traveling assistant—is a notoriously grueling one, requiring unfaltering level-headedness and a zeal for multitasking. These folks are constantly on the move, juggling 20 different chores, and they consequently often appear slightly disheveled (or even sweaty). By most quantifiable measures, Ms. Abedin has the most challenging of those gigs. In the last 10 days, she has accompanied Mrs. Clinton to more than 20 events, involving nine plane flights and several trains. At each stop, they were mobbed. And the rumours certainly are swirling: A major sex scandal story involving one of the leading presidential candidates is believed to be soon published by the LA Times, Big Head DC has learned. Details are slowly trickling in through people who’ve heard about the story, and with Larry Flynt saying he’s set to reveal a “huge” sex scandal story involving a sitting senator in the coming days, the rumors seem to be gathering traction. Several commenters on Rosenbaum’s article strongly believe that Hillary Clinton will ultimately be revealed as a lesbian, and that the recent GQ story her campaign helped kill by threatening to withhold a Bill Clinton interview may have gone into some shocking details into her sex life.Rumors of a close Hillary relationship with one of her top aides Huma Abedin, shown above, have long been swirling. Hillary has long denied being a lesbian. One wonders what will in fact, if anything, be revealed? timworstall.typepad.com

To: bentway who wrote (356841)	11/2/2007 2:02:16 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1570044

Hillary aide: international woman of mystery Thomas Lifson The New York Observer provided a look into the background of Hillary's "traveling chief of staff" and Middle East advisor, Huma Abedin. Very little is publicly known about her, which of course leaves plenty to talk about. And the rumors abound. According to various accounts from Huma acquaintances interviewed for this story: She's Lebanese, she's Jordanian, she's Iranian, she's 26, she's 36, she has two children, she lives with the Clintons. "No one knows anything about her," said one political aide. "She's like Hillary's secret weapon." In point of fact, many people from countless different corridors across the globe know something of Huma Abedin. But apparently she has a rare knack for letting people in without really letting them in. One of the reasons people are seemingly fascinated by her is that she appears to be utterly unflappable, apparently not even perspiring in very hot weather. Another reason is that she is young, beautiful, smart, single, dresses very fashionably ("Robert Barnett, the Clintons' longtime attorney, said that in 11 years of knowing her, he has never seen her wear the same outfit twice") and has been said by the press to have dated movie star John Cusak. How she manages to pay for all those designer duds is a bit of a mystery. Her Congressional salary is found here (notice, incidentally, that a number of the reported pay periods total up to just below a $10,000 threshold for some reason) and couldn't by itself pay for new designer outfits every day. Maybe her work for the Hillary campaign is more lucrative. Or maybe her parents have unusually lucrative careers. The NYO reports: [Her father] founded his own institute devoted to Western-Eastern and interfaith understanding and reconciliation and published a journal focusing on Muslim minorities living in the diaspora. Her mother, a renowned professor in Saudi Arabia, is Pakistani. The Saudi connection can sometimes be extremely lucrative to people whose message is congenial to the Wahhabis that run the place. Ms. Abedin was born in the US, but after the age of two she was raised in Saudi Arabia. Nothing wrong with that, of course, by itself. All in all, a most interesting women. If she were working for a Republican candidate like Rudy, there would be extensive investigative reporting underway by the MSM. Hat tip: Clarice Feldman americanthinker.com