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Obama Sings Happy Birthday to Kennedy

Musical tribute honors senator's battle for health care reform

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(Newser) – President Obama is no Marilyn Monroe, but he sang a heartfelt Happy Birthday to Ted Kennedy yesterday as part of a star-studded musical tribute to the ailing senator, AP reports. Obama shared the Kennedy Center stage with Bill Cosby, Lauren Bacall and James Taylor. Also attending was Caroline Kennedy, who quipped: "I never thought I'd be in a room with so many senators."

Kennedy presented her uncle with the family's Profile in Courage Award to recognize his longtime push for health care reform. The 77-year-old senator, who has been receiving cancer treatment in Florida, is in Washington to attend the White House health summit. The event drew many of Washington's movers and shakers, including Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama and Joe Biden.

Kennedy reacts to the crowd after he arrived with President Obama at the White House Forum on Health Reform in Washington last week.
Kennedy reacts to the crowd after he arrived with President Obama at the White House Forum on Health Reform in Washington last week.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Barack Obama enters the East Room of the White House with Sen. Ted Kennedy at the White House Forum on Health Reform in Washington last week.
President Barack Obama enters the East Room of the White House with Sen. Ted Kennedy at the White House Forum on Health Reform in Washington last week.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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riffran
Mar 9, 09 4:32 AM CDT
as long as he wasn't wearing the dress Marilyn made so famous...rofl...... Reply
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ClingingToHope
Mar 9, 09 8:24 AM CDT
What? No commemoration for Mary Jo Kopechne? Democrats can do no wrong. Reply
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riffran
Mar 9, 09 8:49 AM CDT
sorry not NINY...it's only us republicans that are ever wrong...hillarhoid dodges sniper fire and she merely mispoke, bill defined is is, and didn't get a hummer in the way he understood sex to be defined...Bush AND a majority of BIPARTISAN capitol hills finest..(lol) get information about wmd's and agree to go to war....but it's BUSH lied people died....even after slick willy 's lackeys had in the past mentioned there were WMD's ....it's all so clear..... Reply
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hungrydave
Mar 9, 09 10:17 AM CDT
Aren't all of those people not supposed to be under the same roof for security reasons and for the line of succession? Reply
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