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I guess The Globe didn't nab this exclusive.
Not that there's anything wrong with any of this....
Condi's college roomy and live-in?
Secretary of State, who keeps private life shrouded, co-owns home with female filmmaker
John Byrne
Published: Friday September 14, 2007
RawstorySecretary of State Condoleezza Rice co-owned a home and shared a line of credit with another woman, according to Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler, who reveals the information in his new book, The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy.
Kessler discussed the revelations with talk-show host and gay author Michaelangelo Signorile Friday on his Sirius Radio show.
According to the book, Rice owns a home together with Randy Bean, a do entary filmmaker who once worked with Bill Moyers. Kessler made the discovery by looking through real estate records.
Bean explained the joint ownership and line of credit to Kessler by saying she had medical bills which left her financially drained and Rice helped her by co-purchasing the house along with a third person, Coit Blacker, a Stanford professor who is openly gay.
Blacker later sold his line of credit to Rice and Bean.
Kessler mentions rumors about Rice's sexuality in the book and notes that many older single heterosexual women have been "unfairly" targeted with regard to their sexual orientation. He also says Rice has been the focus of "nasty attacks."
When asked about the revelations on Signorile's show, Kessler "said he did not know if this meant there was something more to the relationship between the woman beyond a friendship."
Perhaps the most popular remaining high-profile figure in the Bush Administration, Rice was promoted to succeed Bush by many of her backers. She repeatedly declined offers to run for president in 2008 and will return to Stanford upon her departure from the White House.
Rice faced attacks from liberals in the gay community over the State Department's reluctance to rebuke Iran for the hanging of gay teenagers. The gay rights lobby Human Rights Campaign called on Rice in 2005 to condemn Iran's human rights abuses after the hanging of two gay teenagers, and to express indignation over "other horrific human rights abuses against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people across the globe."
Rice did not.
The Secretary has remained silent on whether gays should be allowed to serve in the military and has not commented on the permanent partners immigration act.
Andy Humm, a New York gay journalist who discussed the Iran hangings on his TV show Gay USA, says Rice's silence gives "consent."
"Condi Rice works for an administration that uses attacks on gay rights to win votes," Humm told RAW STORY. "She has stood by silently while the President has proposed writing anti-gay discrimination into the Cons ution of the United States. Whenever she is given the opportunity to distance herself from their anti-gay polices she punts."
"Silence," he added, "gives consent."
Signorile excerpted a brief quote from Kessler's book on his blog.
"After she became secretary of state, she came to a party at Blacker's house, kicked off her shoes, and began dancing through the night to rock and and roll," Kessler wrote. "Blacker, who is gay, wanted to show his partner how tight her behind is; he postulated that if he aimed a quarter at her butt, it would bounce off like a rocket. He was right. Rice, who was dancing, didn't realize what he had done until everyone began laughing hysterically. She was flattered -- and proud."
The blogger who first posted emails about former Rep. Mark Foley's (R-FL) solicitation of male Congressional pages, Lane Hudson, also questions Rice's silence.
"Secretary Rice has typified the juxtaposition that many Republicans have between their public and private lives," Hudson said. "Privately, she is very supportive of gays. However, she heads a State Department that has done little to move foreign governments around the world in the direction of equal rights for their citizens."
Steve Clemons, who blogs at The Washington Note -- and who travels in high-level foreign policy circles -- told RAW STORY that "Condoleeza Rice may or may not be gay but that she is in a relationship which legitimately raises these kinds of questions. Before he took office, the president and first lady had close relationships with a number of gay men, including Charles Francis, whose brother managed Bush's reelection campaign for Texas governor."
None of this is really surprising. Prominent rich gays are the biggest family bashers out there - so it may be that many prominent republicans not only are closet gays but also give big money to anti-family pro-big bidnez legislators....
I guess The Globe didn't nab this exclusive.
Hey dan, I thought Condi had a thing going with Bush? Make up
your mind...
Dan's just trying to meet his daily thread quota, that's all.
...take that up with the editors of the globe....
Why was this posted?
Rice is incompetent and in way over her head but who cares about her sexuality or ass tightness?
The Globe has editors?
Dammit, dan is...
Because it can be seen as negative news about the 'other team'.
And there's nothing saying she's even living or has lived with this woman.
Like it or not this is news....if it had been Hitlary, Sean Insannity and Rush would be all over this like stink on ....
It was God and Football which brought the two friends(?) together...
LinkRice earned her PhD in international relations at Denver in 1981, and became an assistant professor at Stanford, where the football program was flagging. She went to every home game anyway, and met her best friend in the process--Randy Bean, also a daughter of a minister who raised her to love football.
"People ask how we became friends and I always say, `God and football,’’’ said Bean, a do entary filmmaker for Stanford. "I could forgive Condi her politics because she loved football, and likewise she could forgive mine.’’
But it wasn't and they didn't.
I'm a lesbian. Just thought I would let everyone know.
No, this is news to you. Everyone else thinks you're an idiot.
How about you email it to them? Nobody else here cares that much about those two one way or the other. This forum might improve a little bit if you'd end this obsession with those two.
I think it's pretty common knowledge that Hillary knows at least two gay people.
Hey dan when is the last time you got a little....whatever,
and is that news......just checking. And would you give
us a link....that is if it is long enough to fill the url space!
This should be a thread about "the most invisible Sec. of State" this country has ever had.
I hope she is gay. At least she would be doing something.
Condi is a textbook real world example of the Peter Principle.
Maybe some people just believe in privacy? If you actually listen, republicans, in general, only complain about the gays who push their agenda in other peoples faces.
People, in general, only complain about Republicans who try to push their agenda on them as well
Yeah, why can't the Christians be "quiet"?
Well, no one got the obvious underlying joke in this thread - which was 'Rice and Beans'
There is a dramatic difference between any republican agenda I can think of vs. how 'in-your-face' much of the gay community is. Any examples that are 'in-your-face' bad?
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