Obama wins endorsement of two Kennedys

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., won the support of two members of the Democratic party’s most storied family on Sunday.

Obama received the support of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., a candidate for the presidency in 1980 and the brother of the late President John F. Kennedy, as well as that of President Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg.Kennedy Schlossberg penned an editorial in the New York Times, in which she compared Obama to her father. “I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them,” Kennedy Schlossberg said, “But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president – not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.”

Kennedy Schlossberg’s uncle, Ted Kennedy, is considered one of the old lions of the Senate, and has been a symbol of unapologetic liberalism to Democrats and Republicans alike. Kennedy will appear at an event with Obama in Washington, D.C. on Monday.

Sen. Kennedy’s support may have been swayed by remarks made by former President Bill Clinton, the husband of Obama’s chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.  The Washington Post reported that Kennedy was “infuriated when Bill Clinton yesterday compared Obama’s South Carolina victory to Jesse Jackson winning the state’s much smaller caucuses in 1984 and 1988.”