Obama: Kennedy was 'soul of the Democratic Party'

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Story Created: Aug 29, 2009 at 1:57 PM EDT

Story Updated: Aug 29, 2009 at 2:05 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has saluted Sen. Edward Kennedy for surmounting pain and suffering to become a family
patriarch and personification of American legislator.

Eulogizing the 77-year-old Kennedy, who died Tuesday, Obama called the senator "the soul of the Democratic Party" and said that in his personal life, he lived up the expectations as "the heir to a weighty legacy."

Obama led some 1,500 people, including three former presidents, at a funeral Mass for Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Kennedy's beloved Boston. He said the senator handled life's challenges with a "spirit of resilience and good humor."

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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