Condi Rice? I thought republicans hated lesbians.

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.zimbio.com/Condoleezza+Rice/articles/13/How+Gay+is+Condi+Rice

http://www.signorile.com/2007/09/condis-best-friends-yesterday-on-show-i.html

There have long been questions about Rice's sexual orientation and her personal life in general. As Kessler notes, "She has built a wall of privacy around her that is never breached." But Kessler had access to Rice's closest friends and to Rice herself, and he reveals some eyebrow-raising information that hasn't been out there before.

In the book and on the show, Kessler described how Rice's "closest male friend" is openly gay, a man by the name of Coit D. Blacker, a Stanford professor (Rice was provost at Stanford in the late 1990s for six years) and a Democrat who served in the Clinton administration. Blacker, whose partner is also mentioned, advised Al Gore's campaign in 2000, while his close friend Rice became a chief confidante to a president who has tried to make gays into second class citizens in the U.S. Constitution. But wait, it gets better.

Rice's "closest female friend" is a woman named Randy Bean (pictured here), who is unmarried and whose sexual orientation is not stated. She is described as a "liberal progressive;" she's a documentary filmmaker who works at Standford University and once worked for Bill Moyers. She and Rice and Blacker (again, who has a partner) are discussed as a "second family," a term Bean uses, also saying that, "on friends, [Rice] goes narrow and deep."

According to newly revealed information in the book (which Kessler found through real estate records), the two women, Rice and Bean (yes, hilarious), own a home together and have a line of credit together. Bean explains this to Kessler by saying that she had some medical bills that drained her financially years ago, and Rice and Blacker helped her out by buying the house with Bean. But over time Blacker sold his share of the house to Rice and Bean, and then Rice would later get the line of credit with Bean to do some renovations on the home. Kessler, when pressed, said he did not know if this meant there was something more to the relationship between the women beyond a friendship.


............Oh yeah, she's a war pig, that makes up for it.

[HiPointDem]

1. republicans just hate gay people publicly. privately, large numbers of them *are* gay.

gay = wedge issue for the less sophisticated peons in the hinterlands.

[Philosoraptor]

2. I'll never understand gay republicans

Chickens for Colonel Sanders

[RagAss]

10. Wrong !....

Pepperoni for Dominoes Pizza !

[JI7]

3. how about the rumors of her with Bush, and the thing with her and Wolfowitz

but i just can't see a liberal being with someone like her. i guess he isn't as bad as some others in that she is pro choice and doesn't go out ranting anti gay and other crap.

but usually i find gays who are liberal tend to not be into conservatives. though conservative gays always seem to want liberals.

[Berlum]

4. Condi & Randy

[Philosoraptor]

5. Just another happy (married) couple in love

Too bad their own party wants them to stay in the closet.

[Philosoraptor]

6. Why didn't they shout her down like they did the Puerto Rican lady?

[Philosoraptor]

7. ...........

[applegrove]

8. Some women just like to be without a partner. People, who for some reason

need a scapegoat, try and attack solitary women for that unless they completely fly below the radar. I am that way. I'm single and loving it. Put it to my german heritage (1/3 of women in Germany never marry I think)....... I can't believe I just defended Rice.

[rbrnmw]

9. Why are we acting like RW homophobes?

I would expect this in Freeperville not on DU

[HopeHoops]

11. She's not a lesbian, she's a professional political slut (and that's NOT a sex-based term)

There are a shitload of political sluts and most of them are men. I just had a thread locked for using that term, but it fits. They'll do anything to stay in the spotlight and the moneypit. Yes, they're sluts, male or female. Whores, if you prefer. They work for money and it isn't clean money in any stretch of the imagination. It's K-street money, Wall-street money, and whatever kind of money is available. Yes, "sluts" is appropriate.