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Kennedy's Bitchslap Hillary Too.

Mike

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HER FACE MUST BE GETTING A LITTLE SORE..............


"Rejecting a last-ditch effort by former president Bill Clinton, Sen. Edward Kennedy firmly bestowed his family blessing on Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

“I’m proud to stand with him here today and offer my help, offer my voice, offer my energy, my commitment to make Barack Obama the next president of the United States,” Kennedy boomed at high volume to an even louder crowd of mostly young supporters at the American University in Washington D.C.

“In Barack Obama, I see not just the audacity, but the possibility of hope for the America that is yet to be,” Kennedy continued in an endorsement speech that also made heavy references to Kennedy’s older brother, the late President John F. Kennedy.

And in a thinly veiled blast at the Clinton campaign, without naming the rival candidate, Kennedy said: “With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. … 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 has been critical of the Clinton campaign for injecting racial issues into the campaign.

And in a slap at other Clinton campaign talking points, Kennedy said: “I know that he’s ready to be president on Day One,” and, “We know the true record of Barack Obama. … From the beginning, he opposed the war in Iraq … and let no one deny that truth.”

The fact that Kennedy leaped into the race at all is a blow to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which had enrolled a number of friends to lobby Kennedy to stay neutral in the race. Even Bill Clinton had personally pleaded with Kennedy, but to no avail.

Kennedy was turned off by Clinton campaign tactics, which he said he believed unfairly injected racial into the campaign, and relied on factual distortions to attack Obama.

Obama and Kennedy also were joined on stage at the American University event by two other Kennedys backing Obama. His son Patrick, who is a Rhode Island congressman also announced his endorsement Monday. And his niece Caroline Kennedy, President Kennedy’s daughter, threw her support behind Obama in a Sunday newspaper editorial.

Robin Costello, a spokeswoman for Patrick Kennedy, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the senator and congressman probably will campaign around the country for Obama, although no concrete plans are set yet.

Together, the three make a formidable front of the nation’s most famous political family. But the Kennedys are not fully united around Obama. Another of Sen. Kennedy’s nieces, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, issued a statement Sunday in support of Clinton. Kennedy Townsend is the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy.

Leading up to the news that Ted Kennedy would endorse Obama, the Clintons and campaign staffers had worked for weeks trying to encourage Kennedy to at least stay neutral in the primary battle that is pitting Obama’s message of change against New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s message of experience.

The New York Times and The Politico report that Bill Clinton had personally appealed to Kennedy to refrain from making any endorsements before the end of the primary season, and the Clinton campaign enrolled a number of friends to lobby Kennedy on behalf of the campaign.

In a television interview Sunday, Obama would not answer questions about an endorsement from the elder Kennedy. “Any of the Democratic candidates would love to have Ted Kennedy’s support. And we have certainly actively sought it,” the Illinois senator said.

Ted Kennedy’s endorsement was highly sought after by all the Democratic candidates. Besides his status as a liberal icon and member of the Kennedy dynasty, Kennedy boasts a broad national fundraising and political network as well.

On Monday, Obama also the endorsement of author Toni Morrison, who once wrote that Bill Clinton was the “first black president.”

Morrison said her endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate has 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 Hillary Rodham Clinton for her first public presidential endorsement.

Morrison, whose acclaimed novels usually concentrate on the lives of black women, said she has admired Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but then dismissed that experience in favor of Obama’s vision.

“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.”

In 1998, Morrison wrote a column for the New Yorker magazine in which she wrote of Bill Clinton: “White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.”

The Associated press contributed to this report.
 

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