Bob Dylan says Barack Obama is 'changin' America

[Ichingcarpenter]

His 1964 track 'The Times They are a-Changin' became the anthem for his generation, symbolising the era-defining social struggle against the establishment.

Now Bob Dylan - who could justifiably claim to be the architect of Barack Obama's 'change' catchphrase - has backed the Illinois senator to do for modern America what the generation before did in the 1960s.

In an exclusive interview with The Times, published in T2 today, Dylan gives a ringing endorsement to Mr Obama, the first ever black presidential candidate, claiming he is "redefining the nature of politics from the ground up".

Asked about his views on American politics, he said: "Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralising. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor.

"But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up...Barack Obama.

"He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to."

He added: “You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4076339.ece



The Exclusive interview is here:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article4074327.ece

[Cant trust em]

1. This is really great.

Possibly the best celebrity endorsement I've seen so far.

[fishwax]

2. Ah, Dylan, "you just want to be on the side that's winning"

:rofl:

Just kidding! I love Dylan! A great endorsement of a great candidate! :woohoo:

[jefferson_dem]

3. What can I say...

I'm not keen to mix Bob and garden-variety political squabbling but this is something different.

:applause: Go Bobby! :applause:



---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-3EgCKtY88&feature=related

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Bob's always been the right kind of political

Don't forget that he was there when Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech.

[jefferson_dem]

6. And he was there for Bill at his first inaugural too...

---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8bRIkEJsVI

[madaboutharry]

4. This just makes me really happy!

:)

on edit: I just got the book of his art exhibit entitled "The Drawn Blank Series." It is a beautiful book and although it was expensive, I am so glad I have it.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. Happy to be the 5th rec........

[madrchsod]

8. interesting ...has he ever "endorsed" a candidate?

the split with joan and him was over politics..she wanted him to become political and he refused...so she went her way and he went his way...

[mzmolly]

9. Nice.

:)

It would be great to have him perform at our Convention?

[madaboutharry]

14. Yes, yes, yes!!!

That would be so great.

[speedoo]

10. K&R. Thanks for posting this.

I've been waiting for Bob to get behind Obama.

Thanks Bob.... see you here in Brooklyn Aug. 12.

[malaise]

11. Come gather 'round people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ_XwLSN45I

love this version.
-----------------
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

[ThatsMyBarack]

12. I like Bob Dylan.

In Chicago, I listen to 97.1 FM The Drive a lot! ;)

[malaise]

17. I love him

big time

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. One of his most powerful songs, that still gives me chills

I'm a big Dylan Fan and have most of his songs.

I used to have an original copy of his Book Tarantula but someone stole it.

[madaboutharry]

15. I have an original print copy of Tarantula, but I

promise it wasn't me who stole yours.

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. Only like a hundred copies when it first came out

I was stupid and didn't know what I had.

[madaboutharry]

18. Don't feel so bad, I was stupid

enough to lose the original Peter Max poster that came in Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. I. I really think it was a creepy boyfriend I was living with who stole it while I was moving out.

[Ichingcarpenter]

22. If you have one of the originals from 66-67

Its worth mega e-bay bucks vs the release that happened in 71 which still worth
some money

Peter Max and the Beatles
what can we say?






.

[Swamp Rat]

19. k&r

[bbgrunt]

20. well, it's time for the changing of the guards....

Gentlemen, he said,
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.

[Faygo Kid]

21. "You better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone. . ."

I'm swimmin', and so is Bob. And we have this liferaft to row us to shore, Michael.

Cuz the times, they are a'changin.

And the times are no longer named Bush. They are named Obama.

[roody]

23. He endorsed the Cadillac Escalade also.

Any integrity there?