Washington (PTI): Fancied Barack Obama, who picked up the much-needed victory in South Carolina Presidential primary, has received another endorsement. This time from Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the charismatic former US President John F Kennedy.

"My reasons are patriotic, political and personal, and the three are intertwined," says the daughter of the popular leader who was assassinated in November 1963 in her piece titled "A President Like My Father".

"It isn't that the other candidates are not experienced or knowledgeable. But this year, that may not be enough. We need a change in the leadership of this country just as we did in 1960," Kennedy said while supporting the African American candidate in an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times.

"All my life, people have told me that my father changed their lives, that they got involved in public service or politics because he asked them to. And the generation he inspired has passed that spirit on to its children. I meet young people who were born long after John F. Kennedy was president, yet who ask me how to live out his ideals," she wrote.

Though the backing of a Kennedy may not carry too much of political weight, yet it is a major psychological boost to the Obama campaign as it now starts prepares for Super Duper Tuesday of February 5 when nearly two dozen states including the delegate-rich ones like Ohio,Illinois,New York and California are up for grabs.

The backing of former President Kennedy's daughter comes at a time when another Kennedy, the veteran Senator from Massachusetts is seen as being on the verge of making a decision on supporting a democratic candidate.