Real-life Charlie Youngs
June 1, 2008
On the Court and on the Trail, One Aide Looms Over Obama. Story about Reggie Love (greatest name ever), who is basically Obama’s Charlie Young. I found this article strangely compelling, and not just because you discover Barack Obama likes organic fruit tea and chews nicorette. The NYT published a similar piece on John Kerry’s aide, Marvin Nicholson Jr., back in 2004, in which we learn “one of Mr. Gore’s aides is engaged to [Gore's] daughter.” At least the Charlie/Zoe thing worked out in real-life.
It would seem, however, that Hilary Clinton’s ‘body woman, “the efficient and glamorous Huma Abedin” has attracted a lot more attention than either Reggie or Marvin. She was in Vogue magazine last August, and there was a long profile piece in the New York Observer. A lot of the coverage seems to focus on either (1) her dress sense, or (2) her love life. She’s currently dating Congressman Anthony Weiner from New York… but if you believed everything you read on the internet, you’d also think she was Hilary’s secret lesbian lover.
