Condi the Rockstar

Condi’s frequent trips abroad have changed the face of US diplomacy, making it more personal, and she is also all business, with less time for sightseeing or other cultural connections that other secretaries have taken part in. The power of Condi’s celebrity is hard to miss when she arrives, onlookers smile and shout, and children wave furiously. Condi has been compared to a "rock star" by Dick Morris and stated that she would be an unstoppable candidate for president in 2008. She is Rock-star big. “A major cultural figure, adorning the bedroom walls of innumerable kids and the covers of innumerable magazines. She is a very appealing person: poised, gracious, humbly smart, still markedly southern after all these years in other parts. And she is also into sports: a tennis player, an untiring follower of college and professional sports.”
All the hype about Condi's new rock-star persona is just because politics has lost its fizz. The journalists and correspondents are bored. The fact that the world can't take its eyes off her gives the media something to draw peoples attention to by focusing on her new persona instead of what she is doing for the country.