CHARLESTON, South Carolina (CNN) — Sen. John Kerry on Thursday endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, saying the senator from Illinois is a “candidate to bring change to our country.”
Sen. John Kerry says he’s backing Sen. Barack Obama Thursday in Charleston, South Carolina. “Barack Obama isn’t just going to break the mold,” said Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate four years ago. “Together, we are going to shatter it into a million pieces.”
The senator from Massachusetts made the announcement in front of an enthusiastic crowd in Charleston, South Carolina, 16 days ahead of the state’s Democratic primary.
Kerry said he was stirred by the way Obama “eloquently reminded us of the fact that our true genius is faith in simple dreams and insistence on small miracles. The endorsement could be seen as a blow to former Sen. John Edwards, who was Kerry’s running mate in the 2004 election.
Kennedy Endorses Obama
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON – Summoning memories of his brother the slain president, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy led two generations of the First Family of Democratic politics Monday in endorsing Barack Obama for the White House, declaring, “I feel change is in the air.”
Obama is a man of rare “grit and grace,” Kennedy said in remarks salted with scarcely veiled criticism of the Illinois senator’s chief rival for the presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as her husband, the former president.
