Aura Over Clinton’s Head Foretold Win, Local Seer Claims

Bill Clinton may now decamp Little Rock and head for Washington with a full load of blissful confidence.

He has the blessing of Oceanside prophetess Diane Mae Newman Gregerson.

Gregerson, 44, who is on early retirement from a dispatcher’s job with the California Highway Patrol, says she’s had prophetic powers since 1989. Mostly about her friends and neighbors.

Last January, after Clinton and wife Hillary appeared on “60 Minutes,” Gregerson had a vision that he was a sure winner. She telephoned him at the Arkansas governor’s mansion and left a message. (She’s got a local newspaper clip to prove it.)

When Clinton came to National City for a springtime rally, Gregerson got up close and took his picture.

She says she saw an aura over his head with the words “Victory, Victory, Victory.” She says she spoke to him.

“He just looked at me with a smile on his face,” she says.

Actually, in the picture Gregerson took, Clinton seems more startled than smiling, but I suppose that’s nit-picking.

Gregerson eschews the normal routes of prophecy: Tarot cards (“they’re demonic”), trances, channeling, hallucinations, dried buffalo chips, etc.

“I’m a direct link between God and the people,” she says, “although sometimes they are not happy at what they have to hear.”

On Election Night, she was in Tri-City Hospital in Oceanside seeing a friend when she saw Clinton on television. He projected a double image, which she interpreted as confirmation of her previous feeling.

(Super)Naturally, she sent him a Western Union wire the next morning:

“As I prophesied in January . . . and in National City that the word ‘victory’ is over you three times. Victorious you reign. Congratulations. God Bless. . . .”

Her presidential prophecy fulfilled, Gregerson can now return to her studies at National University (and her hobby as a gadfly at Oceanside City Hall).

She’s seeking a degree in business communication and wants to become a lawyer. She has a feeling she’ll be a good lawyer.

No-Good Couch Potatoes

Take it or not.

* A nationwide study shows that 9% of burglars take time to watch television in their victims’ homes.

K-BEST’s Ken Copper figures they’re checking “America’s Most Wanted” to see if they’re listed yet.

* Now that’s service.

Traveler’s Aid convinced Nordstrom at Horton Plaza to open up early to help a stranded tourist from Arkansas.

He’d been told he couldn’t board a plane at Lindbergh Field wearing his ripped T-shirt and old jeans.

Nordstrom opened up and the down-home tourist made his early-morning flight in a nifty pair of double-knits.

And no, the guy was not hurrying back to Arkansas to get a job with the new Administration. I checked.

* Police Sgt. Greg Drilling of the gang unit says he saw a new T-shirt: “Comrade Clinton.”

* A crew from the CBS show “48 Hours” was just in San Diego for a carjacking segment.

* La Jolla filmmaker Devin DeHaven is shooting Episode 2 for his “Cities of Rage” series: this time on drug use, fake ID cards and wild sex (there’s any other kind?) among teen-agers in San Diego nightclubs.

* The Century Club of San Diego, which sponsors the Buick Invitational golf tournament, is organizing a Save Our Sports drive to raise bucks for (endangered) school athletic programs.

* The Hollywood Reporter, in a special section on San Diego, informs movie producers looking for filming locations that the city’s five best “rowdy” bars are:

Cahoots in Mission Valley, Dick’s Last Resort in the Gaslamp, Kixx at the Marriott Mission Valley, Trophy’s in Mission Valley and Pure Platinum near the airport.

Pure Platinum is said to have “state-of-the-art topless.” Don’t ask.

Early Discontent?

Be prepared.

At Election Central on Election Night, some joker was handing out buttons that said “Impeach Mayor -----,” leaving space for five letters.

And yes, five letters is just enough for Susan or Peter.