Here’s a mildly amusing piece from The Washington Post.

There’s a saying in English that goes, ‘Politics makes for strange bedfellows’. Here’s a hope that the bedfellows make for better politics.

Another D.C. Power-Couple Moment
Al Kamen

The engagement of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and longtime girlfriend Huma Abedin, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s traveling chief of staff, is now official, and the two are said to be thrilled about their upcoming wedding.

It is an unusual pairing: a Jewish kid from Brooklyn and a glamorous Muslim woman born in Michigan to a Pakistani mother and an Indian father, and raised, until her college years, in Saudi Arabia.

They know Washington can be a difficult place for couples, especially when their jobs may put them in opposing camps.

Take Weiner’s successful efforts in recent years to amend an appropriations bill in order to cut about a million dollars in aid to Saudi Arabia. The money provided for Saudi officers to receive military training, counterterrorism expertise and such.
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