Em entrevista à revista TIME, ainda durante as primárias democratas, Ted Kennedy contou porque já apoiava a candidatura de Barack Obama:"I said for the last year I was always going to support the candidate that inspired. I said that on the Stephanopoulos show and also on Meet the Press and in various interviews. And it always seemed to me that at the start of this campaign there were a number of people that I knew that have absolutely wonderful qualities and are capable to inspire. And a number of them have dropped out.
That was just now three weeks ago. So after that period of time, I continued to sort of observe the campaign and it became more apparent to me. It was sort of a growing process about the inevitability of Barack Obama, that he would appeal to the youth, that he had a message of hope and that he had this ability to draw across age lines, between the young and the old, and between the east and the west and the north and the south, between black and white, straight and gay. And it's a process really, isn't it?"
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O que Ted Kennedy representa para Obama:
"He is at the heart and soul of the Democratic Party — the belief in civil rights, the belief in opportunity for all people, in upward mobility, in caring for the least of these, a vision that extends beyond our shores – Barack Obama, no dia em que recebeu o apoio de Ted Kennedy à sua postulação de ser candidate à presidente pelo Partido Democrático.
"Not only one of the greatest senatorsof our time, but one of the most accomplished Americans ever to serve our democracy" - Obama na cerimônia religiosa realizada em Boston no sábado 29/8
Universal Health Care: a eterna batalha de Kennedy e o grande desafio de Obama:
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