November 6, 2008 - 3:16pm
Inside Edge

Why Senator Kennedy endorsed Obama

By Wally Edge

It turns out Senator Ted Kennedy and President-elect Barack Obama haven't always had the best relationship. Kennedy was quite miffed with Obama for straying on a bipartisan agreement of liberal and conservative senators to vote down amendments to their immigration reform plan. Despite wide assumptions that Kennedy broke his neutrality over disgust with Bill Clinton's behavior on the stump, Newsweek's exclusive story on the presidential race has the senior senator offering up a one-word answer for why he endorsed Obama in late January. That word?

"Caroline."

Wally Edge can be reached via email at politickerma@gmail.com.

Related topics: Edward Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Barack Obama
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