Jo’s Cafe

Only in this country is it possible for people to scramble for, beg for, threaten for, or get the endorsement of a murderer and sleep at night.

Via Breitbart.com

By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent

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.

“I feel change in the air,” Kennedy said in remarks salted with scarcely veiled criticism of Obama’s chief rival for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as her husband, the former president.

“I have marveled at his grit and grace,” he said of the man a full generation younger than he is.

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.

Only in America!