Teddy to Endorse Obama

Barack Obama will get his second Kennedy endorsement in as many days:

Rejecting a personal entreaty from President Bill Clinton, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president in a joint appearance on Monday, Democratic sources said.

The embrace provides a dramatic rocket for Obama to ride into the frantic, nationwide campaigning ahead of the spate of Super Tuesday primaries on Feb. 5, the biggest day for nominating contests in U.S. history. Caroline Kennedy, the senator's niece and the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, will also appear at the rally, the sources said.

Advice to Obama: Go ahead and ride the "rocket" as described above, but stay out of Teddy's car.

UPDATE: A key sentence from Teddy's speech:

'Through Barack, I believe we will move beyond the politics of fear and personal destruction and unite our country with the politics of common purpose'

And he said it without slurring any of the words too. Impressive for Teddy (of course, the did this at noon and not in the late afternoon when it would have been a lot more risky).