Sen. Barack Obama today picked up the endorsement of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), giving the Illinois Democrat a key boost as he and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) head into their final week of campaigning before the potentially crucial "Super Tuesday" presidential primaries on Feb. 5.In a speech at American University in Washington, Kennedy, 75, a 45-year veteran of the Senate and a standard-bearer for liberal Democrats, joined his niece, Caroline Kennedy, and his son, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.), in publicly backing Obama for the party's nomination.
The three Kennedys, taking turns speaking at lectern bearing the slogan, "Change We Can Believe In," invoked the inspiration of former president John F. Kennedy in supporting the candidacy of Obama, a first-term senator who seeks to become the nation's first African American president.
Just as John Fitzgerald Kennedy energized the country with his idealism, Barack Obama has created a refreshing movement of change that has rejuvenated the spirit of progress in our democracy. Kennedy posed a question to the public in 1961:“ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Barack Obama has answered that question in 2008 and the results of the South Carolina primary display the power of his message and its appeal in our age of political disillusionment.
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