Senator Ted Kennedy, the dean of the Democratic Party’s liberal wing, is planning to formally endorse Barack Obama’s presidential quest, US media reported Sunday.
The brother of president John F. Kennedy and senator Robert Kennedy, the influential Massachusetts politician plans to issue his endorsement for fellow Senator Obama on Monday, US media reported, citing campaign and Senate sources.
Kennedy’s expected endorsement was announced one day after Obama swept the South Carolina Democratic primary, pulling him closer to national front-runner Senator Hillary Clinton, wife of ex-president Bill Clinton.
It also comes after the late president Kennedy’s daughter Caroline issued her own endorsement of Obama, comparing him to her father, who was president from 1961 to his assassination in 1963.
"Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves … and imagine that together we can do great things," Kennedy wrote in a US-based newspaper on Sunday.
"Senator Obama is inspiring my children, my parents’ grandchildren, with that sense of possibility," she said in the article titled "A President Like my Father."