I hear that Condelleza Rice and George W Bush have a sexual fling going on.\u00c2\u00a0 It pops up in — probably not the National Enquirer, but one of the tabloids that is more spurious than that one — from time to time, with Luara Bush apparently sidled off into separate corners.\u00c2\u00a0 The radio program the Stephanie Miller Show\u00c2\u00a0has turned this into a a running gag of “Shh.. You can’t mention those spurious rumors!”<\/p>\n
That recent spurious book about Hillary Clinton — Ed Klein’s The Truth About Hillary<\/u>, posits that Hillary Clinton had a number of Lesbian relationships in her college years, or more precisely strongly implied.\u00c2\u00a0 The source for these spurious rumours are pretty much trogldytes with a serious culture clash.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically this statement found here sums it up<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 But also we have The National Review mulling it over with Joe Klein<\/a>, without coming across terribly well.:<\/p>\n NRO: How many times do you use the word “lesbian” in your book? Why point out she had friends who were lesbians? Do we need to go there?<\/em>Klein: Hillary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s politics were shaped by the culture of radical feminism and lesbianism at Wellesley College in the 1960s. This is paramount in exploring the political life of Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n How could someone write a comprehensive biography of Hillary Clinton without investigating the rumors that have long circulated about her? I’ve gone further than any other journalist in exploring the question of her sexuality, which is often the first thing people wonder about her: Is she misrepresenting herself as a doting wife to Bill Clinton? How can she stand his chronic infidelity?<\/p>\n As for the number of times the word appears in the book, I don’t know. But I’m sure there are some in the Clinton campaign counting right now.<\/p>\n <\/em>So.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever.\u00c2\u00a0 “The Visitor Center: Bungling and Deception” by Blaine Harden, from November 17, 1980 in the Washington Post on what brought to pass the dream of … the dream of…<\/p>\n The plan that Gray promised on Nov. 27, 1967, to turn Union Station into the National Visitor Center was neither perspicacious nor farseeing.\u00c2\u00a0 The plan was a hodgepodge of wishful thinking, outright deception and bad judgment.\u00c2\u00a0 It has unfolded as an almost unparalleled example of congressional bungling.\u00c2\u00a0 For what was supposed to save Union Station without costing “one cent of taxpayers’ money,” Congress has spent or committed itself to spend more than $117 million.\u00c2\u00a0 Those millions have been spent on one of the world’s most expensive uncompleted parking garages and on a restoration project that’s actually helped destroy the monumental train station.\u00c2\u00a0 Up to $90 million more may have to be spent to fix it.<\/em><\/p>\n What is it a Gray?<\/p>\n In Washington, Gray was a flashy dresser, favoring wine-colored velvet\u00c2\u00a0suits, multicolored slacks, bow ties and his trademark: high gloss patent leather shoes.\u00c2\u00a0 He used country expressions such as “that stuff won’t wash” and “that calf won’t suck.” His constituents bought him a $100,000 jet helicopter, which he used to fly between Washington and his district.\u00c2\u00a0 He had what was then known as an eye for the ladies; his staff consisted of some of the most attractive young women on Capitol Hill and he personally hired a blond named Elizabeth Ray in 1972.<\/em><\/p>\n And Jimmy Crack Corn and Why Should we care, within the purviews of blogging about irrelevant presidential contenders?<\/p>\n According to Elizabeth Ray, the major source in the congressional\u00c2\u00a0sex-scandal revelations in 1976, a condition of her employment was that she have sex with Gray’s friends.\u00c2\u00a0 Ray claimed that Gray ordered her to have sex with Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) on the evening of Aug. 10, 1972, to ensure his support for the visitor center.\u00c2\u00a0 Colleen Gardner, another major figure in the sex-scandal revelations, told a grand jury that she saw Ray and Gravel having sex that night on a houseboat that Gray owned and kept in a Washington marina.\u00c2\u00a0 Both Gray and Gravel have denied the allegations.<\/em><\/p>\n I don’t have easy access to any media from that time-frame, but I suppose it would be mildly entertaining,\u00c2\u00a0but ultimately\u00c2\u00a0pointless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hear that Condelleza Rice and George W Bush have a sexual fling going on.\u00c2\u00a0 It pops up in — probably not the National Enquirer, but one of the tabloids that is more spurious than that one — from time to time, with Luara Bush apparently sidled off into separate corners.\u00c2\u00a0 The radio program the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-gravel","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}