Hillary’s Mystery Woman: Who Is Huma?
Senator Clinton’s closest aide, Ms. Abedin never sweats; Oscar de la Renta wants to dress her
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.
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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.
“I think she has special powers,” said public-radio broadcaster Katia Dunn, who recently crossed paths with Ms. Abedin and Mrs. Clinton at a café on Capitol Hill.
Ms. Dunn explained that she had heard about the “cult of Huma,” but had never met her. “All of a sudden, I turn around and there was this woman I now know to be Huma. And it wasn’t just that she was gorgeous—she did just sort of have this presence. She stopped me in my tracks for a second.”
“It’s not like she’s incredibly coiffed,” Ms. Dunn continued. “She just looked very composed and confident in her natural beauty. She momentarily arrested our progress. What’s amazing is that she didn’t even yell at us or anything—she didn’t have to.”
Representative Anthony Weiner, a swingingly single Brooklyn Democrat who has known Ms. Abedin since before Hillary Clinton was elected to office, talked about her ability to perform under pressure “preternaturally.”
“This notion that Senator Clinton is a cool customer—I mean, I don’t dispute it, but the coolest customer in that whole operation is Huma,” said the Congressman, who watched Ms. Abedin in action earlier this month at the internationally covered march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.
Crossing the bridge was a logistical minefield: huge crowds to navigate, innumerable V.I.P.’s—including former President Clinton—to hand-hold, countless photo ops to facilitate and a strict timetable to keep. “There were a hundred things that could have gone wrong,” Mr. Weiner recalled. “And Huma was sort of the all-purpose trouble-shooter of first response. It was a tour de force, and what was most impressive is that she maintained a level head the whole time.”
He added: “In fact, I think there’s some dispute as to whether Huma’s actually human or not.”
But, Really, Is She?
Which gets at another facet of the cult of Huma: She’s something of a mystery, even to the people who have worked in her proximity for years.
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.
“This might seem too over-saccharine, but I love Huma,” said Oscar de la Renta, who is a personal friend and intensely loyal supporter of the Clintons. The legendary designer was speaking to The Observer on the phone from his compound in the Dominican Republic. He has known her for nearly a decade. Indeed, he noted, Ms. Abedin has actually been a guest at his island home. He described her as “discreet,” “loyal,” “beautiful” and “half-Pakistani.”
“She is an unbelievably feminine and gentle person, but at the same time she can accomplish so much,” offered Mr. de la Renta. He recalled that she had great style, but hastened to point out that “she’s a Muslim” and “she’s very conservative.”
“I always say I don’t want to die without seeing [Huma] in a strapless dress,” he said, with a laugh. But did the dapper dressmaker know, say, where his dream girl grew up? Next Page >
She's Hillary's lover. Duh.
Almost makes me want to support Hillary. Oh wait, she's still a power-hungry, spineless politician, even if her assistant is sexy.
I was a "body person" for a candidate on a statewide campaign. Huma sounds like she can be the goddess of body persons!
this makes perfect sense. i knew hill was a rugmuncher all along, now reading how this ho is her ladyfriend all over the internet. good taste in women hill, but quit lying to yourself and all your followers.
IIRC, Hillary fancies herself another Eleanor Roosevelt... who, incidentally, had a gay lover.
It's well known in DC that Hillary goes for the alternative lifestyle. During the Clinton Administration, one of Hillary's "girlfriends" was Elizabeth Rourke, head of the Human Rights Commission, a leftist organization.
If Hillary's doing Huma, all I have to say is, "What a waste!!" Why doesn't Hillary go after Ellen Degeneres, or Rosie O'Donnell....?
Is this the third-grade playground comments page?
no problem i like him lesbian
I wonder if Huma is a mole, planted by Muslims in advance, just to gain the candidate's trust and to influence her opinions. ABC's Peter Jennings had one too. Remember how JFK slept with Sam Giancana's girlfriend and an Easter German spy.
Seriously people? Are there no more intelligent people out there? There are so many more important things than Mrs. Clinton's sexual preference. You are all just jealous, so can we please get back to what is really important?
Hildog now have something in common we both like eating pie
VOTE RON PAUL
Huma could use a little work on her face
In the past 10 days, this is the second article I've read about The Clintons where the word p-r-e-t-e-r-n-a-t-u-r-a-l is used prominently. Never saw it in the mainstream Clinton report before now. The other article was a piece by George Will, complimenting former President Clintion on his "preternatural political skills." Like it or not, humanity is moving into another phase of its spiritual evolution. A little here, a little there; precept upon precept; line upon line. Click yer rubyred slippers for us Huma and make the wicked witch vanish...
Remeber what happened to that young intern while Clinton were in whitehouse.
Mary Caitrin Mahoney: 25 (former white house intern)
A U.S. Secret Service Agent assigned to checking doors at the White House, opened a door one night and found Hillary Clinton in a compromising sexual position with Ms. Mahoney, a known lesbian since her high school days. Hillary was furious and whacked him in the head with a metal ashtray. Ms. Mahoney was shot to death at a Starbucks Coffee Shop, right in the heart of Washington DC, a short time later. On July 7, 1997 Mahoney was in the Starbucks cafe cleaning up after closing time with co-workers Emory Evans and Aaron Goodrich. Sometime after 9pm, two gunmen got inside and shot all three to death. Mahoney was singled out for the most horrendous fate - as if she'd been the killers' prime target. Of the ten shots fired, she was hit five times at point blank range, including at least once in the face. The final bullet was delivered to the back of her head after she'd already fallen. In one hand, in a death grip, Mahoney clutched the keys to the store's safe, which held the weekend's receipts of more than $10,000. D.C. cops were mystified by the apparent lack of motive in the crime. The safe hadn't been opened. The cash registers were undisturbed. The store hadn't been ransacked. None of the victims' personal belongings had been touched. A high-powered Washington FBI agent, Special Agent Bradley J. Garrett, was brought in on the case. He is known as "The Fixer", because he is called in to find patsy's to take the blame for government murders. He made this out to be a routine robbery murder case, supposedly committed by a small time criminal, one Carl Derek Cooper. After 54 hours of questioning by Garrett and another agent, Cooper signed a confession that he immediately repudiated as soon as he got to court. During his 54 hours of interrogation, Cooper had consistently denied the crime and volunteered several times to take a lie detector test. Most of the testimony against him was by agent Garrett, and based on Garrett’s representation of what Cooper had said during the interrogation. The questioning was not recorded or videotaped. Garrett had sucessfully arranged to blame the crime on a vulnerable nobody.
"The word huma in the Persian language stands for a fabulous bird. There is a belief that if the huma bird sits for a moment on someone's head it is a sign that he will become a king. Its true meaning is that when a person's thoughts so evolve that they break all limitation, then he becomes as a king. It is the limitation of language that it can only describe the Most High as something like a king."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huma_(mythology)
thomas, you need to play a bit more attention, my friend. remember the famous "ellen d. comes out on television" episode? ellen spent the two nights previous at the whitehouse! think about it.
So what happens again when Huma sits on Hillary's face, er head that is?
So I guess Hilary likes twenty-something year old interns too. That's funny.
Who needs the screenwriter's guild, this stuff writes itself.
Bring back Colbert!!!
You mean to tell me, this site was right?
Hillary for Lezident!
Another Clinton sporks a young, glamorous aide. No surprise in that, but how does she get, er, excited by the iron lady? Gross. When this inevitably gets out, it won't die because Huma is beautiful (I'd hate to see her end up in Fort Marcy Park), and the whole tawdry affair is deliciously selacious. If you hate the Clintons, you still have to admit they have tremendous entertainment value.
Now I know what keeps Bill and Hill together - it's that healthy spirit of friendly competition - for the same women. (guess if you were married to Hillary, you'd fool around, too)
Hillary is so gross. She lies about everything, including who and what she is. Why the gay community don't out her I have no idea.
I worked in an office where a male co-worker loved to tell us about his sister - a D.C. hairdresser - who did the hair on a regular basis of young sexy women who were driven over the Clinton White House for Hillary's daily dose of perverted sex. The woman is fetid! She is a disgrace. Her heroine was Eleanor Roosevelt, who openly lived with a woman. There are dozens of documented pieces about Hillary's lesbianism yet the mainstream press won't touch it.
Why not tell us who you really are, darling? Oh, I know. You won't get elected if you do. Faye Dolan
Huma Abedin 08!!!
they both are hot - should of made videos
First of all it's not sexual preference, it's Hillary's sexual preferences. Gennifer Flowers the first "bimbo eruption" on the Clinton mob tour wrote a book that detailed her conversation with Bill Clinton on the matter. According to the book, Flowers asked if the lesbian activity was true and Bill said, "She's eaten more p*&^% than me."
Truth in advertising. Doesn't the American public have a right to know about the candidate they vote for to the most powerful position in the world?
Of course they do. And girlfriend Huma living with Hillary and answering the phone any time, day or night is part of it.
So there's your intelligent rebuttal.
Why don't somebody throw a bucket of water on the wicked witch of the west. Maybe she will start melting.
For eight years we had to deal with BJ Bill, who was led around by the small head...now the prospect of Hitlery and her muslime lesbian girlfriend?
No wonder a person's sexual background is checked out so thoroughly before being granted a security clearance! A person who is led by the libido is too careless and clueless to be trusted! Hitlery is NO DIFFERENT than Bill!
She American born American, why all the prejudice - becoz she is a woman or she is muslim ?
Does anyone knows Huma's email? :)
(Socialist bitch?) thats a little extreme. SOCIALIST, words of a republican. For the entire nation to receive universal health care is not a SOCIALIST movement, using that word as if to say COMMUNIST, pathetic garbage.
That is Corporate Americas "new phrase". When corporations rule, you lose. They will buy your politicians ,then get away with ripping everyone off, polluting the earth and endorsing wars only numskulls endorse. And your worried if shes a lesbian..
I am telling you ,as the years go by bigotry just gets worst. An voters like you is what caused this mess to begin with.