Condi finds love north of the border!

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:21 pm

This may be in the realm of old news, but I just heard about it now.

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.''

More recently:

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.

Secretary Rice and Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay fight over who pays at a coffee shop in Pictou, Nova Scotia

Can Washington DC's most eligible bachelorette really be off the market?!?

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:35 pm

She's 51? Wow...she really doesn't look it at all.

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:41 pm

well ... according to the Canadian rumor mill Condi is just MacKay's rebound girl

Kilre · Post by **Kilre** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:48 pm

Now that's what I call foreign affairs!

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:56 pm

Geez, Toxic...why didn't you snag her when you had the chance?

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:16 pm

Tim wrote:Geez, Toxic...why didn't you snag her when you had the chance?

*shiver*

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:34 pm

but Tim Horton's is the most magical resturant in the world. I don't even like Coffee, and that would win me over.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:32 pm

OBS wrote: Robin's beats Tim's, there isn't any excuse.

Anything having to do with a Robin is automatically better.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:46 pm

Kilre wrote:Now that's what I call foreign affairs!

Okay, that one was pretty funny

.

And I echo the "she's 51?!"

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:59 pm

maybe it's a missprint and it should read that she's 5'1"?

Actually my mom is pretty close to 50 now and looks way younger than Condi, so her being 51 doesn't really surprise me.

DJMayhem · Post by **DJMayhem** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:36 pm

nope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:34 pm

Run away Condi! McKay's a gigantic tool!

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:35 pm

Condi seems to have an immunity to them.

Tynan · Post by **Tynan** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:39 pm

No American can turn down a Canadian.

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:42 pm

I've found little trouble turning down Nickelback.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:46 pm

Nickelback fucking sucks.

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:47 pm

Sellout.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:48 pm

Fuck you.

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:50 pm

their first album was okay, but then all of their songs that were getting any airplay were nothing but sexual inuendo, and that gets old after 30th time

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:54 pm

Inuendo is generous. Not a hint of subtlety involved.

I assume Timmy here's working much more smoothly.