As previously reported Barack Obama was endorsed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Representative Patrick Kennedy, and Caroline Kennedy during a rally at American University in Washington, DC,earlier today.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy who has promised to campaign aggressively for Obama said:
“It is time again for a new generation of leadership,” “It is time now for Barack Obama.”“We, too, want a president who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American dream and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal and who can lift our spirits and make us believe again,” “I’ve found that candidate and I think you have, too.”
He said one candidate had risen above the rest.
“He understands what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the fierce urgency of now,”
“I stand here today with a great deal of humility,”
I know what your support means. I know the cherished place the Kennedy family holds in the hearts of the American people.” “
He added:
“He will be a president who refuses to be trapped in the patterns of the past,” . “He is a leader who sees the world clearly without being cynical. He is a fighter who cares passionately about the causes he believes in, without demonizing those who hold a different view.”“With Barack Obama, there is a new national leader who has given America a different kind of campaign — not just about himself, but about all of us,” Mr. Kennedy said. “A campaign about the country we will become, if we can rise above the old politics that parses us into separate groups and puts us at odds with one another.”
Mr. Kennedy is expected to head west with Mr. Obama,strategists see him bolstering Mr. Obama’s credibility and helping him firm up support from unions and Hispanics, as well as the party base.
You can watch the videos of the remarks by the Kennedys after the jump.
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hUM9hz I’m not easily impressed. . . but that’s impressing me! 🙂