Obsessive loyalty?

As I was reading the story of Edwards' aide Andrew Young

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090930/pl_politico/27755

I could not help but remembering the Scott Pritchard character, played by Will Paton, from the 1987 movie "No Way Out" - a Kevin Costner suspense drama that, if one misses the first few minutes and the last few, one gets an entirely different story.

Andrew Young, according to the long analysis from Politico

When John Edwards returned to North Carolina in the course of his long quest for the presidency, Andrew Young always met him at the airport in Edwards’s big black Chevy Tahoe. Young drove, and Edwards rode shotgun, silently raising his left hand whenever he wanted a Diet Coke, which Young would wordlessly supply. When Edwards and his family arrived home, Young had made sure there was fresh milk in the fridge, a neatly trimmed lawn and neatly folded dry cleaning. When he arranged their vacation to Disney World in 2004, he naturally booked himself a ticket. And when Edwards’s mistress became pregnant, Young — at the cost of his reputation, his wife’s and his minister father’s — stepped forward to say the child was his.


But the real story of Young is about the passions of politics and the classic political triangle of the candidate, his wife and the sometimes sycophantic aide. The consuming devotion that politicians command from a small handful of loyalists is familiar — and not just in presidential campaigns.

More at the link, above.

Sad and Pathetic

There are many PA's and EA's in corporate America who suffer the same sad situation.

Personal Assistant and Executive Assistant?