Barack Obama's campaign against one political dynasty (the Clintons) is endorsed from the descendant of another one (Caroline Kennedy).
Why do we care again?
Update 1/28 10:06 AM: On the other hand, today's endorsement from Ted Kennedy is a much bigger deal. In particular, as TNR's Jonathan Cohn and a commenter below note, it could help Obama with Latinos and working class whites.
Update 1/28 2:23 PM: Josh Marshall offers a similar take:
If the issue is dynasticism in politics, I guess there's some measure of irony in the group endorsement I'm now listening to from the Kennedy family.
Oh, come on.
George W. Bush is George H.W. Bush's son. Hillary Clinton is Bill Clinton's wife.
Barack Obama is not a Kennedy. Even if he is the modern incarnation of JFK, as Caroline argues, it still would be ridiculous to talk about the Kennedy-Obama dynasty.
Posted by: lowellfield | January 27, 2008 at 04:07 PM
How many Kennedys became president, again?
Posted by: Jinchi | January 27, 2008 at 04:34 PM
Mainly because Teddy just endorsed Obama. Hard to tell if endorsements matter much, but if any of them do, then that one will. It could help Obama in pretty much all of his weak demographics (Hispanics, Catholics, working-class whites, old people).
Posted by: ikl | January 28, 2008 at 12:40 AM