Caroline Kennedy Endores Sen. Obama

The daughter of President John F. Kennedy endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, saying he could inspire Americans in the same way her father once did. "I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them," Caroline Kennedy wrote in an op-ed posted Saturday on the Web site of The New York Times. "But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president - not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."

Kennedy, who was four days shy of her 6th birthday when her father was assassinated, wrote that Obama "has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things."

And she appealed to other parents to pick a candidate who she said could invigorate a younger generation that is too often "hopeless, defeated and disengaged."Kennedy wrote that she wants a president "who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved." Find out more about the late President Kennedy's daugther at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarolineKennedy

Research info taken from: www.theledger.com

Now, here's one of my Presidential poems:


Harry Houdini On Holiday

In the poem version about the untied military boots

war breaks out in a virtual car chase allowing

vandals a bumper-sticker of green lights for miles

before the night is lit-up by artillery fire.

Two sacred mounds of prickly hats are blindfolded

then forced to stand before the hangman's noose

where scat looks like a lavish Hollywood movie where

identity theft grows up to be urban blight's stage prop.

The blindfolds don't care. Neither does bird flu. It brings

a twig to the empty c-cup then brides porcupine quills

to boycott any notice of amnesty, so long as those little

metal weighs are still sown in buttons of window drapes.


Poem first published at: http://www.foame.org/
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