Clinton's excessive volubility sometimes drives Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice around the bend.
Press secretary Scott McClellan briefly dropped his sunny volubility and accused reporters of obsessing about the "side issues of religion," as if the White House hadn't been .
That volubility has indeed caused her problems, but it's also made the 51-year-old Indian actress an outspoken secular hero espousing tolerance in a state riven by religious .