"Until now, Rice’s rumored matches have been, shall we say, unlikely ever to appear on the cover of GQ magazine. In July, the normally staid Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera raised its eyebrows over a joint appearance in Rome between the similarly staid Italian foreign minister, Massimo D’Alema, and Rice.
In April, a headline in The Boston Globe promised a tale of “Jack and Condi: A Love Story,” after Rice gave the pullout bed aboard her plane to the former British foreign minister, Jack Straw, during a trip to Baghdad from Blackpool, England, where she was visiting Straw’s hometown.
But it took a two-hour flight to Halifax, Nova Scotia, this week, followed by a 90-minute motorcade north to Pictou County, for Rice to find herself linked to someone with similar star appeal: Peter MacKay of Canada, the single, sophisticated foreign minister, routinely named the sexiest Canadian lawmaker by The Hill Times newspaper in Ottawa, and the closest thing to eye candy on the diplomatic circuit…"
That’s some smoking hot… politics going on, right there. Sometimes the arrows don’t miss. ![]()