Is Weiner just a beard for Huma?

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Hillary has Huma, Barack has Love,, and Huma’s love is Weiner, or at least that’s what the NY tabloids say:

Rep. Anthony Weiner, a likely 2009 mayoral candidate… 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…” [Link]

This story has actually been kicking around since January, when the rumors of a Hillary-Huma couple were stronger. Back then the Abedin-Weiner story was floated and then denied:

Speculation that Washington’s two most eligible singles–Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fashionable traveling aide Huma Abedin and New York’s dashing bachelor Congressman Anthony Weiner–are dating has become “common knowledge” among the campaign press corp… [Link]

Hillary Clinton’s top traveling aide, Huma Abedin, is not dating bachelor Rep. Anthony Weiner. A source close to Abedin shares that the political glamour gal is “just friends” with Weiner, but is dating someone else. [Link]

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p>Honestly, I have trouble believing the story because I can’t imagine a body-person having time or energy to do anything more than minister to the candidate’s needs. They’ve got to be there, an arm’s length away, from when the candidate wakes to when they sleep. Huma’s probably better chaperoned than a desi on their first arranged marriage cha-meeting. And besides, Huma’s got her hands so full that I can’t see how she’s able to hold Weiner’s. Her schedule’s so full that there would be no time to be abeddin’ Abedin.

That said, it doesn’t really matter to me whether she likes Weiner or not. We’re desis, we like our politics without sex, thank you very much. You go girl – whatever direction you want.

143 thoughts on “Is Weiner just a beard for Huma?”

  1. The bigger problem may be that Weiner went public before Abedin. Usually, it’s the gal that confirms or denies she is involved with someone.

  3. Huma芒鈧劉s got her hands so full that I can芒鈧劉t see how she芒鈧劉s able to hold Weiner芒鈧劉s.

    Uh Ennis, did you mean that as a double entendre or was that accidental genius?

    Either way it made me laugh out loud!

  4. Huma芒鈧劉s got her hands so full that I can芒鈧劉t see how she芒鈧劉s able to hold Weiner芒鈧劉s.

    haha good one.

  5. That芒鈧劉s right, Hillary can solve the problems of the Middle East by bringing together Muslims and Jews, two semites at a time (waggle brows).

    her father is indian and her mother pakistani. how can she be a semite? (unless you’re presuming that islam-runs-in-the-blood and conversion changes your ethnic identity, which isn’t true)

  6. her father is indian and her mother pakistani. how can she be a semite? (unless you’re presuming that islam-runs-in-the-blood and conversion changes your ethnic identity, which isn’t true)

    Drat, you’re right. Forgot that. OK, removing that paragraph …

  7. no worries 馃槈 she lived in saudi arabia so i thought you’d confused that for her ancestral county.

  8. She is Scytho-Punjabi, I bet she can drink Bubba under the table (but it is probably best not to be under a table with Bubba)

  9. Well if his love is motivating him to support Clinton, it is fine. I am a firm Obama supporter, but he did win a fan when I saw this clip.

  10. Ah yes, a beautiful desi girl, a non-desi guy. Politics as usual.

    Tongue-in-cheek… eh, sort of.

  13. No self respecting minority woman in politics would ever date a non-white.

    don’t worry, hmf, no self respecting white person considers jews white, so it’s all good.

  14. No self respecting minority woman in politics would ever date a non-white.

    HMF, you do have occasional flashes of insight, but, really–you are starting to be a bit too random. You’re saying here, for example, that if Bobby Jindal was a woman s/he would have to have a white partner? That’s loony-tunes.

  15. 12 脗路 HMF said

    No self respecting minority woman in politics would ever date a non-white.

    And she goes dutch on their dates too!

  16. no self respecting white person considers jews white, so it’s all good.

    What on earth are you talking about? Do you actually know any upper-class Americans? Yeah, and triangles have four sides. . . .

  17. 16 脗路 rob said

    What on earth are you talking about? Do you actually know any upper-class Americans? Yeah, and triangles have four sides. . . .

    not as intimately as you rob, of course.

  18. Yeah, and triangles have four sides. . . .

    dude, some of the best triangles i’ve been in have had four sides…

  19. 16 脗路 rob said

    What on earth are you talking about? Do you actually know any upper-class Americans? Yeah, and triangles have four sides. . . .

    rob, i’m sure OP is being sarcastic. hir handle is hagee-lite.

  20. 17 脗路 portmanteau not as intimately as you rob, of course.

    LOL–touche. My point being, whilst Americans (at high levels) no doubt note Jewish/non-Jewish, it in no way is comparable to white/non-white.

  21. My point being, whilst Americans (at high levels) no doubt note Jewish/non-Jewish, it in no way is comparable to white/non-white.

    my golf club employs only jewish caddies.

  22. HMF, you do have occasional flashes of insight, but, really–you are starting to be a bit too random. You’re saying here, for example, that if Bobby Jindal was a woman s/he would have to have a white partner? That’s loony-tunes.

    I generally stay well away from this type of thread and there aren’t enough datapoints, but there’s something to what he says. It’s reflected in ads & media as well in the makeup of interracial couples so why not politics? If Jindal were a Repub pundit rather than someone seeking elected office, given his religion and social circle he would have most likely married white (like D’Souza & Ponnuru). But marrying white would have alienated much of his constituency so he opted for an Indian. On the other hand, an Indian/Asian woman marrying white has simply seen the light and will be seen as a great example of assimilation. The majority community does perceive minority men & women in mixed relationships differently. Also, politics is about access so marrying someone who isn’t from the majority community (i.e. white male) does not advance your cause. For the record I don’t believe this in any way explains the dynamics of most mixed couples or Huma. It’s just that most politicians suffer from some level of sociopathy so it is natural for me to look for reasons other than love in the creation of power couples

  23. If Jindal [] marrying white would have alienated much of his constituency so he opted for an Indian.

    LOL–why are you thinking most of Jindal’s voters are Desi? That’s whack!

  24. 22 脗路 louiecypher said

    The majority community does perceive minority men & women in mixed relationships differently.

    i think for once HMF is on to something. although the way in which he expressed it was odd. one could say an opportunistic or ambitious person would marry white for political gain. putting it in terms of self-respect, brings in the issue of self-hatred, which is an unfair remark to make. unless you have very good data about the psychology of the individual you’re talking about. and something tells me, HMF and huma abedin are less than intimate. but, then again, who would have said katie holmes would be tom cruise’s lawfully wedded?

  25. If Jindal [] marrying white would have alienated much of his constituency so he opted for an Indian. LOL–why are you thinking most of Jindal’s voters are Desi? That’s whack!

    Ummm, no. I know much of his constituency is racist whites who may forgive Jindal his wonkishness/high IQ but would not be too happy if he got uppity and put his arm around a white woman. They are merely Ok with him being a public servant

  26. 22 脗路 louiecypher said

    If Jindal were a Repub pundit rather than someone seeking elected office, given his religion and social circle he would have most likely married white (like D’Souza & Ponnuru). But marrying white would have alienated much of his constituency so he opted for an Indian.

    Interesting point. Look at the minorities guys who married different races. Alan Keyes married an Indian chick, and lost to Obama in 04; Michael Steele married a white, and lost in Maryland. However, Maryland and Illinois are blue states though.

  27. If Jindal were a Repub pundit rather than someone seeking elected office, given his religion and social circle he would have most likely married white (like D’Souza & Ponnuru).

    Maybe Jindal married his wife cause he fell in love with her. That may be a crazy idea, but that could be the reason.

    So what after he done being in his office, he gonna dump his wife and marry someone who white.

  28. 25 脗路 louiecypher Ummm, no. I know much of his constituency is racist whites who may forgive Jindal his wonkishness/high IQ but would not be too happy if he got uppity and put his arm around a white woman.

    I am not denying that these racial dynamics are complicated or worth thinking about, but you, with, that comment, are really living in a weird bubble–I couldn’t care less about the people who are (hypothetically) mad about the location of his arm–just stop denying that you are so sad that Bobby Jindal has achieved 100x more in his life than you will ever do.

  29. 22 脗路 louiecypher said

    If Jindal were a Repub pundit rather than someone seeking elected office, given his religion and social circle he would have most likely married white (like D’Souza & Ponnuru). But marrying white would have alienated much of his constituency so he opted for an Indian.

    just out of curiosity, does anyone think this logic applies to obama?

  30. just stop denying that you are so sad that Bobby Jindal has achieved 100x more in his life than you will ever do.

    i think “rob” is really “bob”by.

  33. just stop denying that you are so sad that Bobby Jindal has achieved 100x more in his life than you will ever do. i think “rob” is really “bob”by.

    I’ll have to drink myself to sleep tonight….Rob has made me confront my inadequacies

  34. i get it rahul

    well i am not rahul, but that’s ot. let us keep the focus on the political impact of miscegenation.

  38. Abedin’s mom is a Pakistani living in Saudi. Abedin herself is on the board of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. Her father was a prominent Indian Muslim Scholar. It’s a background that you’d think wopuld sit uncomforatbly witrh Wener, given his political views.

    Fr instance, in Congress, Wiener .. introduced (an) amendment proposing Saudi Arabia be added to a list of countries named by the U.S. State Department as terror-supporting states. and at another time, Congressman Wiener attempted to introduce an amendment that would have removed a small amount of money providing education funding for members of the Saudi military.

    Going further, Weiner has said he 芒鈧揷ome(s) from the ZOA (Zionist Organization of America) wing of the Democratic Party. The ZOA is on the nutcase end of American Jewish Organizations: it’s pro-settlement, anti-Oslo, anti-Palestinian state.

    Finally, here’s a story about New York Desi activists from Weiner’s district trying to get help from Wiener for a Pakistani family rounded up by the BCIS

    We visited Anthony Wiener, the congressman from Jamaica [in Queens, NY] … We met with Wiener芒鈧劉s staff. The staff were very uncomfortable when a dozen brown people pressed into their office

  39. It’s a background that you’d think wopuld sit uncomforatbly witrh Wener, given his political views.

    I wondered about that on Huma’s side, but Hillary is pretty hawkish on many Israeli-Palestinian issues as well, so maybe it doesn’t bother her.

    Still, there’s much here that feels like it’s for public consumption rather than being a private matter that came to light. Since her private life isn’t really my business, I can’t say it bothers me either way.

  41. I thought Muslims don’t date non-Muslims.

    Many use the term Muslim too generally, i.e. they would describe agnostics like Rushdie or Ayan Hirsi Ali as Muslim. A Muslim is someone who practices Islam. We don’t know the extent of her religiousity…her membership in the Minority Affairs Group may have more to do with the fact that the masses will perceive her to be Muslim regardless. I don’t know of any Muslims (defined as a practitioner of Islam) who married people who didn’t convert to Islam. I know people who come from a Muslim heritage but don’t practice Islam who marry/date non-Muslims.

  42. Louiecypher wrote: her membership in the Minority Affairs Group may have more to do with the fact that the masses will perceive her to be Muslim regardless

    er — no. This isn’t hard to google. The journal was founded by her father, the late Syed Z. Abedin. Her sister and her mother are aslo involved. It’s a family affair.

    And to answer Rahul S, it’s not that Muslims don’t date non-muslims, it’s that Muslims don’t date ugly non-Muslims.

  43. Ikram: Yes I am aware, but membership in a family run organization speaks little about her religiousity. You inherit a family not necessarily their religion. If I were an openly agnostic Muslim (but not of the antagonistic Hirsi Ali variety) rather than an agnostic Hindu I could see myself getting involved in such an org. to speak out against profiling, workplace discrimination and other issues that people perceived to be Muslim have to deal with

  44. 42 脗路 Ikram said

    And to answer Rahul S, it’s not that Muslims don’t date non-muslims, it’s that Muslims don’t date ugly non-Muslims.

    I’ve seen one Muslim girl date a hindu guy. That girl was pretty good looking, but other girls told me the guy was ugly. So, this could maybe be from your experience or people that you know.

  49. 46 脗路 payal said

    I thought Weiner is gay?

    no, it’s just that every get-together at his pad devolves into a weiner fest.

  50. HMF, you do have occasional flashes of insight, but, really–you are starting to be a bit too random

    provide me a counter example. Politics and Media are white heavy institutions (and in the latter case, Jew heavy as well) so a minority woman in those fields would likely marry someone successful in those fields, and they would likely be white.