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Condi Rice new
squeeze? Condoleeza
on Peter MacKay like
white on rice
During a morning
that included a
visit to a Tim
Horton's (Canada's
best known chain of
coffee and donut
emporiums), where Ms
Condoleeza Rice, 51,
had a half regular,
half decaf coffee
and Mr Peter MacKay
had a medium tea,
The Toronto Star saw
something blossom. Peter McKay is Canada's Foreign Minister but nothing was foreign about this encounter. "This has been a lovely trip, Peter," said Ms Rice yesterday, at the end of a relaxing visit to Pictou County, Nova Scotia, the prosperous and beautiful home district of Mr MacKay, a 41-year-old bachelor. Even The New York Times abandoned some of its usual decorousness to eye up Mr MacKay, who it described as: "the closest thing to eye candy on the diplomatic circuit."
"Tall, athletic,
young, blond and
recently dumped by
his girlfriend, a
fellow member of
Parliament, Belinda
Stronach, who parted
with him when she
switched parties, Mr
MacKay does not look
like your usual
foreign minister,"
the newspaper
reported. The
Toronto Globe and
Mail made Mr MacKay
and Ms Rice one of
its "Hot" items of
the weekend. |
 Condi Rice and Peter MacKay exchange pleasantries and then some
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All of which must
stick in the craw of
Mr Straw, whose
much-anticipated
second date with Ms
Rice, in which he
returned the favour
for a guided tour of
her home town of
Birmingham, Alabama,
with a trip to
Blackburn,
Lancashire, went
rather badly. "Both ministers bore the awkward air of fulfilling a rash promise made to a distant cousin at a particularly merry wedding," was how The Guardian saw the event, which was disrupted by protests and rescinded invitations. "As diplomacy, the event was distinctly strange; as theatre, it was superb," wrote Ben Macintyre for The Times. Of course Condi is not looking so bad herself at 51. So this begs the question, could romance be in the future for Condi and MacKay? Sportsbook.com was considering the demand on this betting alternative and whether to offer odds on a potential Condi-MacKay "power couple" but in the meantime how about that Hillary Clinton?
Ms. Clinton swept
through the Senate
primaries and last
we checked is listed
as the 3 to 1
favorite to become
the next US
President at
This might not bode well with Condi. You have odds of 60-1 of being named the next US President. That's a payout of $60 for every $1 bet. Alejandro Botticelli, www.gambling911.com Originally published September 13, 2006 1:02 pm ET |