Elizabeth B. Moynihan Endorses Barack Obama

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/moynihans-widow-endorses-obama/

"Elizabeth B. Moynihan, the widow of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who shepherded Hillary Rodham Clinton as his successor in the United States Senate, has endorsed Barack Obama, Mrs. Clinton’s chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.

In a statement she sent to the Obama campaign, Mrs. Moynihan said her husband, who died in 2003, “loved the Senate and would have been unhappy when close Senate friends he respected were competing for the nomination, as is Hillary Clinton, who succeeded him and has become a very good Senator.”

Mrs. Moynihan added:

I know he would have become excited, as I have, to see Barack Obama rekindle hope in our young as he encourages them to participate in the political process, and I know Pat would approve, applaud and encourage me to join Caroline Kennedy in supporting Barack Obama’s candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.

Mrs. Moynihan said she was inspired by an Op-Ed piece by Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, published on Sunday in The New York Times, and was also dismayed by the hostility Bill and Hillary Clinton have shown recently to Mr. Obama’s candidacy."

She probably knows HC far better then we will. See what she's doing with this knowledge.

Endorses the other guy. You think she would at least want to stay neutral. Pretty telling indeed.

:shrug:

:wow:

Great words about Obama. I think anyone who spends anytime really studying Obama ends up feeling this way too. It seems many people here at DU have shut off their minds to the good and only look for the bad in Obama.

Even then they can only harp on handshakes.

Thank you for posting this.

Looks like Teddy and Caroline are having an effect.

sits in her husband's former seat!

That is a fine, fine endorsement.

Well, this and the New York Post :D

Thanks. Hadn't heard anything about this one. :hi:

Very nice endorsement! Fantastic for Obama!:applause: :woohoo: :applause:

encouraging? :D

:rofl: