Watch Out, Fran, There’s A New Gal In Town
It appears that our beloved Frances Townsend has some competition for the title of top White House hottie. This morning’s Times brings us Elisabeth Bumiller’s profile of 36-year-old Meghan O’Sullivan, deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan. This follows on the heels of Washingtonian naming O’Sullivan a “Woman to Watch,” in their feature on the 100 Most Powerful Women in Washington.
More discussion of this high-octane hottie appears after the jump.
O’Sullivan plays a key role in advising President Bush on Iraq, submitting daily memos to him and briefing him several times each week. The Times reports that Sullivan, “who was crisp and wary in a recent interview in her office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, would say little more about her conversations with Mr. Bush.” (She was, however, willing to pose for a glamour shot in a White House conference room, looking like a younger, more pensive Geena Davis.)
While stationed in Iraq, Sullivan had a brush with danger that one could easily imagine being in a feature film:
In October 2003, when she was immersed in the negotiations over Iraq’s first post-invasion constitution, a rocket hit her hotel in Baghdad. The blast jammed Ms. O’Sullivan’s door shut, and she escaped by inching along a narrow ledge outside her 10th-floor window.She eventually made her way to the Baghdad streets and then her office at Saddam Hussein’s former palace on the banks of the Tigris. The explosion killed an American colonel and wounded 16 others.
Like Jennifer Garner in “Alias,” Sullivan changes outfits when required to by her job:
One of Ms. O’Sullivan’s chief responsibilities in Baghdad was keeping abreast of developments within the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or Sciri, one of the main Shiite parties. She covered herself from head to toe for meetings with Abdul Aziz Hakim, the party leader, and earned his trust.
But isn’t it a waste to swathe this hottie in a burka? And if you question O’Sullivan’s hotness, don’t take our word for it; she has the resume to prove it. During her time at Georgetown, O’Sullivan did some modeling work for extra cash, according to the Times.
Of course, the hard-hitting Bumiller has asked all the right questions. In case you’re wondering, yes — Meghan O’Sullivan is single.
You can send fan mail to the White House. It won’t be long before she’s getting more letters than Barney.
Adviser Has President’s Ear as She Keeps Eyes on Iraq [NYT]
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It's hard to tell from that single photo, but it looks like the only thing she has on Fran is age.
by RUS on 06/12/06 01:57 PM
Congratulations, Wonkette, you've located the reason our Idiot-In-Chief has trouble concentrating on the war. He's being briefed on it by this beautiful woman.
by FlaTipster on 06/12/06 02:15 PM
God damn it, when are you people going to get on board with my adoration of the adorable Steph Herseth? She's much cuter and nicer than these Republican ice queens.
by jfruh on 06/12/06 02:18 PM
I'm on board with jfruh, Steph is the bomb. And a Democrat. So you know she's got issues that need some love. catfight time?
by MSM Hack on 06/12/06 02:34 PM
OK, someone has to be the downer here...when are we gonna get some profiles of dude politico hotties? This is afterall, WonkETTE.
by YesDems on 06/12/06 02:39 PM
With all due respect to La Fran, who was my teaching assistant in Introduction to American Politics so many years ago, Ms. O'Sullivan may now be the wearer of the White House Hottie Crown.
I suppose an evening gown and bathing suit portion of the competition would be too much to ask for.
by Smitros on 06/12/06 02:42 PM
only in this town would this woman be considered 'hot.' pathetic
by capitol hillbilly on 06/12/06 02:42 PM
Hottie? Looks as cold-as-ice (which may be as "hot" as a Republican gets?).
Looks like another "Bree"....the desperate housewife, not the transexual.
by Fauntleroy on 06/12/06 03:48 PM
There have been some male hotties on this blog. Like Chez Bono. And the PETA boys (but sadly for us, they're gay).
by Jen E. on 06/12/06 04:53 PM
O'Sullivan looks like one of those incredibly expensive and lifelike sex doll that has an owner who makes a pay Web site about her.
by thomas on 06/12/06 05:13 PM
Now that I look again, she looks like Mel Gibson's annoying daughter from "What Women Want."
by Boomdog on 06/12/06 05:34 PM
Isn't the point that they are the hottest women connected with real power? Not that they are hot, period?
And seriously, every single time there's a new "hottie" post, some chivalrous frat-dude pipes up with the sentiment "only in this town would mutt-mutt here be considered hottt!". We get it. Really. We really really get it.
by Alfonso X. Alfonse on 06/12/06 05:40 PM
I was going to say the love child of C.J. Craig from West Wing, and Geena Davis from Commander In Chief. Christ I need a social life that doesn't involve politics.
Regarding male hotties: damn few, gay or not.
If this woman is "hot," Wonkette just needs to come out and get it over with.
by Barnacle on 06/12/06 06:24 PM
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