Big big big news for Barack. Because between Caroline Kennedy`s editorial likening Barack to JFK and now JFK`s own brother saying `This is the guy ` Hillary`s `experience` message is pretty much shot to hell. From the Boston Herald: Kennedy believes Obama can `transcend race` and bring unity to the country a Kennedy associate told the Globe. Kennedy [...]

Kinda sucks to be Hillary Clinton right now . Ted Kennedy - one of the last two major Democratic endorsers along with Al Gore who seems to be keeping silent - has endorsed Barry Obama last night`s big winner. The old fatso`s endorsement has been in the works for a few days it turns out so it`s not like he`s `tarding out just because of that delightful speech last night. Instead insiders suggest that it was Kennedy`s history of killing young white bitches in his car that made him feel closer to `the black candidate.` [ ]

The potential impact of Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama is of course a question mark that looms over the campaign for the Democratic nomination for president. Personally although the media is touting it as monumental I'm not convinced it helps Obama much nationally unless Kennedy intends to stump for him in various February 5th states (that certainly helped John Kerry in Iowa four years ago.) It will be interesting to learn just how large a role Kennedy intends to play in Obama's campaign moving forward. Will he serve as an on-the-ground surrogate for Obama in key states as John Kerry and Janet Napolitano did in Las Vegas prior to the caucus there? The use of high profile surrogates will be key to the candidates' campaigning in February 5th states as they try to campaign everywhere at once without actually being everywhere. But there's one state where the impact of the Kennedy endorsement will undoubtedly shake the ground and that's in Massachusetts where voters will be among the millions to go to the polls on February 5th. So far Obama enjoys the support of the state's Governor Deval Patrick Congressman William Delahunt and as of tomorrow officially both senators (not to mention with Caroline's support the appearance of the endorsement of the Kennedy family although RFK Jr. has endorsed Hillary.) This is a huge base of institutional support for Obama in a state where on paper anyway he really shouldn't be competitive. (586 LVs Jan 23-24 MOE +/- 4.1%) indicates just how steep an uphill climb Obama has ahead of him in Massachusetts. Clinton 59 Obama 22 Edwards 11 Undecided 6 Consider this the baseline poll of the state having been taken prior to his win in South Carolina and the Kennedy endorsements. Clearly this is one of the states Hillary Clinton was counting on not having to compete in. Something tells me it may not be as easy as she'd thought although a friend of mine familiar with Massachusetts insists the state's demographics still favor Clinton. Tags: ( )

— ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: Senator Ted Kennedy D-Mass. will endorse Barack Obama's presidential bid on Monday in Washington a source close to Kennedy tells ABC News. — The endorsement gives Obama a boost in the eyes of the Washington establishment … Source: Author: Ed OKeefe Link:

— WASHINGTON — Senator Edward M. Kennedy will endorse Barack Obama for president tomorrow breaking his year-long neutrality to send a powerful signal of where the legendary Massachusetts Democrat sees the party going — and who he thinks is best to lead it. Source: Author: James F. Smith Link:

I guess we'll see. He could use the help.

Source: [b]Boston Globe[/b] WASHINGTON Senator Edward M. Kennedy will endorse Barack Obama for president tomorrow breaking his year-long neutrality to send a powerful signal of where the legendary Massachusetts Democrat sees the party going and who he thinks is best to lead it. Kennedy co...

Because Sen. Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy have chosen to endorse Sen. Obama and gone so far as to call him the echo of JFK pro-Clinton blogger Taylor Marsh has chosen to deride JFK as connected to the mob. Somehow I don't think if Teddy K was endorsing Sen. Clinton we'd be getting the same reaction. The silly season has now been dialed up to 11. Marsh goes even further and says that Obama would have voted for the Iraq...

Last night we learned that Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama in a titled "A President Like My Father." Today the word is out that her uncle Ted will do the : Kennedy believes Obama can ``transcend race'' and bring unity to the country a Kennedy associate told the Globe. Kennedy was also impressed by Obama's deep involvement last year in the bipartisan effort to craft legislation on immigration reform a politically touchy subject the other presidential candidates avoided the associate said. The coveted endorsement is a huge blow to New York Senator Hillary Clinton who is both a senatorial colleague and a friend of the Kennedy family. In a campaign where Clinton has trumpeted her experience over Obama's call for hope and change the endorsement by one of the most experienced and respected Democrats in the Senate is a particularly dramatic coup for Obama. Certainly adds to the Obama momentum right now. UPDATE: The Governor of Kansas is also endorsing Obama. Kansas has a caucus on February 5th. Sebelius is giving the Democratic response to the State of the Union tomorrow night.

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Ted Kennedy just finished speaking, in seriously impassioned fashion to a sympathetic crowd at American.