Can Obama and Ted Kennedy Chip Away at Clintons Latino Support?
Can Obama and Ted Kennedy Chip Away at Clinton’s Latino Support? Monday January 28, 2008#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Here in my Southern California home, I’ve met innumerable immigrants-turned-U.S. citizens… Latinos and Asians, in particular… who probably know little about Sen. Ted Kennedy and even less about Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the 35th President, who was assassinated 44 years ago. And the name of Toni Morrison, the revered Nobel laureate author and Clinton confidant who also endorsed Sen. Obama today, would draw blank stares from new citizens unfamiliar with the U.S. cultural landscape of the 1960s through 1990s. For this reason, today’s landmark endorsements of Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy by Sen. Ted Kennedy, the respected dean of Senate Democrats and iconic fighter for social justice, and his niece, Caroline Kennedy, keeper of her late father’s legacy
