Billary's dirty campaign tactics are bearing fruit, but not the kind they sought. In his ringing endorsement of Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy made it clear that he is endorsing the change that Obama - in contrast to Hillary - can potentially bring to the nation. I truly believe that the majority of Americans are down right sick of politics built on lies, deliberate misstatements and sleazy underhanded character assassinations. Billary has yet to figure that out, apparently. Here are highlights from Kennedy's endorsement and the story reporting it (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UF1QB81&show_article=1):
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two generations of Kennedys—the Democratic Party's best known political family—endorsed Barack Obama for president on Monday, with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy calling him a "man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character," a worthy heir to his assassinated brother. 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 days before a string of delegate-rich primaries and caucuses across 24 states on Feb. 5, beginning later this week in Arizona, New Mexico and California. The senator made his comments at a crowded campaign rally that took on the appearances of a Kennedy family embrace of Obama, who sat smiling as he heard their praise.
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. Rep. Patrick Kennedy also endorsed Obama from the stage before a boisterous crowd at American University. In his own remarks, Sen. 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.
"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 S. 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.
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