I posted during the committee hearing, and now can't think which dem said it...Biden??--Howlin said she noticed it, too, but this questioner prefaced a "question" with some phrasing about Rice's "relationship" with the President and that she was being "rewarded" or some such. It's pretty plain we're in for four years of hints that something is going on there. It started back with that vile Trudeau strip where he had President Bush calling Rice "Brown Sugar".
I actually expected them to try and pull this stunt last year during the campaign, but I guess Maureen is a little slow on the uptake. For these people, it is impossible to conceive of a single woman, especially a single black woman being a devout Christian and not a layabout or a lesbian. Ergo, she must be playing Ride the Pony with GW.
The whole fly in their ointment is that Bush is a standup guy as well, a solid Christian gentleman who honors both his wife and his friend Condi. Yes, Maureen, there can be an intimate friendship between Condi and the Bushes without sex or erotica. However, this kind of relationship is literally beyond the understanding of the post-modernist mind.
It is precisely because Condi has this relationship with both George and Laura (who actually considers Condi a friend and is not threatened by her) that she has become the most powerful individual in Washington after the President and Cheney.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
By the way, one of the reasons MoDo dislikes W is for the handle he laid on her during the 2000 campaign: "the Cobra".