Senator Edward Kennedy: 'It's time now for Barack Obama'

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CNN: Kennedy: 'It's time now for Barack Obama'



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy backed Sen. Barack Obama for president Monday, saying: "It is time again for a new generation of leadership."

"It is time now for Barack Obama," the Massachusetts senator and brother of the late President Kennedy added. He stood with Obama, his son Rep. Patrick Kennedy and his niece, Caroline Kennedy before a screaming capacity crowd of students at American University in Washington, DC. "Like you, we want a president who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American dream," he said. "I've found that candidate. And it looks to me like you have too," he said.

Kennedy said he has always planned to "support the candidate who inspires me, who inspires all of us, who can lift our vision and summon our hopes and renew our belief that our country's best days are still to come." And picking up on Obama's central campaign theme, he said, "I feel change in the air. What about you?"

Kennedy also praised Sens. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, and vowed, "whoever is our nominee will have my enthusiastic support." But he also took a line from Clinton's campaign, saying that Obama "is ready to be president on day one."

The senator -- a fixture of the Democratic Party popular with many liberals -- was introduced by Caroline Kennedy, who thought back to her father, the slain president. She said Obama offers the "sense of hope and inspiration" that young people today need. In fact, she said, her children "were the first people who made me realize Barack Obama is the president we need." Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama in a New York Times editorial over the weekend....

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/28/kennedy.obama/index.html


Sen. Edward Kennedy shakes Barack Obama's hand after endorsing him Monday.

[LSparkle]

1. Talk about a contrast between future and past -- on the day of SOTU

Who gives a rat's ass about W anymore? We have seen the future of American politics, and it ain't KKKarl or Shrub or any of his cronies ...

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2. If I have a prayer within me right now, it is that we will soon wake up...

from that national nightmare.

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3. cool