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Randy Bean, Condi Rice's "special friend"
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This post, written by Pam Spaulding, originally appeared on Pam's House Blend

I'm posting on the Blend today from Birmingham, Alabama -- the birthplace of Condi Rice. I wonder if folks here are buzzing about this news about her. Via Mike Signorile, who spoke with Glenn Kessler, whose new book is The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy:


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 served as the provost as 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 served as a chief confidante for 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."

There's much more, including the fact that Rice owns a home with Bean and shares a line of credit with her. Not that this means anything, right? Go read the rest.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/62661/

Why does it matter if she is or not?

She IS a lesbian

Are you done yet????

doesnt realy matter to me I just thought it was interesting. After all the this is an election year and the republicans will be dragging out those family values to campaign on since they certainly have no other accomplishments to crow about.

MIRROR, HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?

WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR CHRISTIAN FAITH? YOU HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING, SO WHY WOULD YOU SAY SUCH A GOSSIPY STATEMENT?

LINDYY

She has never been with a man. As far as anyone knows. Thats rather abnormal for a woman her age isnt it?

Why does it matter if she is or not?

I would think you chose to click the topic, if you do not like the topic dont click it?

Because she works with Vice President **** Cheney who said that gay people were an abomination.

Why is it an issue?