Bob Dylan = friend of Pete Seeger.
Pete Seeger = friend of Stalin.
Pete Seeger + Springsteen = friend of O’s.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pete+seeger+dylan
“Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and others will pay tribute to the great Pete Seeger and will celebrate his 90th birthday with a big concert in New York. ...”
Only difference is Bob ain’t no commie. In fact Seeger felt very betrayed by bob becoming the anti-hippie during the Vietnam war.
Dylan is old friends with Joan Baez, too. Dylan is non-partisan and about as libertarian as it gets. I get the impression that he doesn’t like politics or anybody associated with it, and I think he abides political simpletons like Seeger and Springsteen solely for their music, not their politics.