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...scene that greeted the candidate backstage could have been a Kennedy family reunion. Ted's branch of the clan had gotten there first. The senator was there with his congressman son Patrick, Ted's wife Vicki, and Vicki's son Curran. Then Caroline arrived with her three teenagers. Teddy's sisters, Eunice Shriver and Jean Kennedy Smith, showed up too, along with an assortment of their children and grandchildren. Through the blue curtains, the crowd was thundering...
Thousands had been lining up outside American University's Bender Auditorium in Washington, D.C., hours before Barack Obama's arrival Monday afternoon. The campaign had initally booked the arena for a rally, but the news that he would be getting the endorsements of three members of the Kennedy clan there had given it the aura of a historic event...
...been a benediction as much as an endorsement from the most revered members of America's most storied Democratic clan, bestowed upon a presidential contender who had been born the same year that John F. Kennedy had declared that a torch had been passed to a new generation. And for a moment there, it was a bit overwhelming for Barack Obama. As Obama came backstage at American University's Bender Arena after working the ropeline with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, he told me: "That was pretty strong. I gotta admit, I had to clamp it down...
...says that in the long term, the ISAF's mission is "not about how many people you kill. What counts is how many areas think they are better off staying with the government." He believes local people have little allegiance to distant Kabul; far stronger are their ties to clan and tribe. "If you convince a tribal leader to cooperate with the governor," he says, "then his people will do so as well...
...Bill Clinton said he hoped the rhetoric will "mellow out," though he understands that "we're going to have a few arguments - this is a contact sport. Sometimes when you have a family feud it's harder than when you have a feud with someone in a different clan because you have to dig deeper to find where the difference...