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Kennedy Family Embraces Obama as Worthy Heir

Monday, January 28, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama for the

Democratic presidential nomination on Monday as a "man with extraordinary

gifts of leadership and character," a worthy heir to his assassinated

brother.

"I feel change in the air," Kennedy said in prepared remarks salted with

scarcely veiled criticism of Obama's chief rival for the nomination, Sen.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as her husband, the former president.

Kennedy's endorsement was ardently sought by all three of the remaining

presidential contenders, and he delivered it at a pivotal time in the race.

A liberal lion in his fifth decade in the Senate, the Massachusetts senator

is in a position to help Obama court Hispanic voters as well as

rank-and-file members of labor unions, two key elements of the Democratic

Party.

He is expected to campaign actively for Obama in the eight days leading up

to next Tuesday's delegate-rich primaries and caucuses across 24 states,

beginning later this week in Arizona, New Mexico and California.

The senator made his comments at a crowded campaign rally at American

University that took on the appearances of a Kennedy family embrace of

Obama.

He was introduced by Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, who

said Obama "offers that same sense of hope and inspiration" as did her

father.

In is own remarks, Kennedy sought one by one to rebut many of the arguments

leveled by Obama's critics.

"From the beginning, he opposed the war in Iraq. And let no one deny that

truth," he said, an obvious reference to former President Clinton's

statement that Obama's early anti-war stance was a "fairy tale."

"With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of

misrepresentation and distortion.

"With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race

against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and

straight against gay," Kennedy said.

The Massachusetts senator had remained on the sideline of the presidential

campaign for months, saying he was friends with Obama, Clinton and former

North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, as well and several Senate colleagues who

are no longer in the race.

Lately, according to several associates, Kennedy became angered with what he

viewed as racially divisive comments by Bill Clinton. Nearly two weeks ago,

he played a personal key role in arranging a brief truce between the

Clintons and Obama on the issue.

Kennedy refers only sparingly to his assassinated brothers, John and Robert,

in his public remarks, and his endorsement of Obama was cast in terms that

aides said was unusually personal.

"There was another time, when another young candidate was running for

president and challenging America to cross a new frontier. He faced

criticism from the preceding Democratic president, who was widely respected

in the party," Kennedy said, referring to Harry Truman.

"And John Kennedy replied, 'The world is changing. The old ways will not do.

.... It is time for a new generation of leadership.

"So it is with Barack Obama," he added.

Kennedy began his remarks by paying tribute to Sen. Clinton's advocacy for

issues such as health care and women's rights. "Whoever is our nominee will

have my enthusiastic support," he said.

But he quickly pivoted to a strong endorsement of Obama, whom he said "has

extraordinary gifts of leadership and character, matched to the

extraordinary demands of this moment in history."

"I believe that a wave of change is moving across America," Kennedy said.

Also Monday, Obama picked up the endorsement of author Toni Morrison, who

once labeled Bill Clinton as the "first black president." Morrison said she

has has admired Obama rival Hillary Rodham Clinton for years because of her

knowledge and mastery of politics, but cited Obama's "creative imagination

which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom."

Morrison said her endorsement had little to do with Obama's race-he is the

son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas-but rather

his personal gifts.

Writing with the touch of a poet in a letter to the Illinois senator,

Morrison explained why she chose Obama over Clinton for her first public

presidential endorsement.

"In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you

exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or

gender and something I don't see in other candidates," Morrison wrote. "That

something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals

wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or

if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or

if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the

forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it.