2004 hopeful Kerry backs Obama for White House

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COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AFP) — Defeated Democratic nominee John Kerry Thursday warmly embraced Barack Obama's White House run, implicitly attacking Hillary Clinton as a representative of stale old politics.

The moment was nigh for a far-reaching transformation of the nation, Kerry told a pumped-up Obama rally in South Carolina, "and I believe that this moment is the moment that we should make Barack Obama president of the United States."

The Massachusetts senator, who lost the 2004 election to President George W. Bush, said he "dared to hope" then that a fractured country might be reunited in Bush's second term.

"It didn't, but it will when Barack Obama is president," Kerry said in a fiery speech in Charleston that did not mention Clinton by name, but was...