Condi finds love north of the border!
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:21 pm
This may be in the realm of old news, but I just heard about it now.
More recently:http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=2e1f8858-752e-4e1b-8741-617180e1cdf8&k=13661 wrote:OTTAWA - Maybe he just felt like a little long-distance flirting on his birthday.
But when a reporter on Parliament Hill tossed out the unlikely question, ''Is Condi hot?'' on Wednesday, Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay paused on a staircase, broke into a wide smile and replied: ''She's got a great mind.''
And with that, MacKay ditched the media scrum and disappeared up the staircase, leaving behind more fodder for pundits looking for romance on the stodgy international diplomatic scene.
It all started 2 1/2 weeks ago when U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited MacKay's home riding in Halifax on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Because she stayed overnight in her own accommodation, mind you and held his hand after a press conference and repeatedly called him by his first name, a scribe with the New York Times lit the fuse under the romantic speculation by penning a playful piece that suggested the 51-year-old secretary of state might indeed be smitten with the tall, handsome foreign affairs minister, who turned 41 on Wednesday.
The writer referred to MacKay as ''the closest thing to eye candy on the diplomatic circuit,'' making references to his repeated victories as Canada's sexiest male MP in an annual contest by a Parliament Hill newspaper.
The U.S. State Department has since fended off suggestions anything took place between the two in Nova Scotia.
For one thing, 14 aides and six security guards attended the intimate dinner Rice and MacKay apparently enjoyed.
As an exasperated State Department spokesman added at the time: ''No, there were no candles.''
http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/22095.aspx wrote:On Wednesday the New York Times showed a picture showing the pair holding hands and affectionately looking at each other in the eyes.
Can Washington DC's most eligible bachelorette really be off the market?!?
Secretary Rice and Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay fight over who pays at a coffee shop in Pictou, Nova Scotia
