Barack Obama is JFK heir, says Kennedy aide

[jefferson_dem]

Barack Obama is JFK heir, says Kennedy aide
By Toby Harnden in New York
Last Updated: 2:01pm BST 12/10/2007

John F Kennedy's closest living aide has anointed Barack Obama as the heir to the assassinated president's legacy and predicted that Hillary Clinton would lose an election to a Republican.

Ted Sorensen, 79, Mr Kennedy’s chief speechwriter, slipped into the present tense as he was transported back to 1960, when another youthful senator espousing hope and change was being written off by the Establishment.



“Both Kennedy and Obama have fantastically winning smiles and I might say both are very relaxed in front of an audience and on television," he said in an interview. "They don’t shout into a microphone, they talk.

"The principles, the values Obama and Kennedy are enunciating are not five-point plans for new health care programmes, which is more Hillary's style."

The Kennedy legacy and the aura of Camelot have been powerful but largely unspoken themes underpinning the campaign of Mr Obama, another charismatic Harvard alumnus heralding a new era in politics.



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[Captain Hilts]

1. Actually, Obama is BETTER than that...

he doesn't have the emotional baggage, the bad health and the recklessness.

I think he'd make a better prez than JFK actually.