After the summer of love, Bob Dylan backtracks on Barack Obama

Times Online (U.K.) ^ | April 7, 2009 | Patrick Foster

[annieokie]

I second that.

[scott says]

On the Dylan Ping List. I will try to post more stories as I find them. Thanks to everybody pinging me to the threads.

[upsdriver]

LOL! thanks for the big ceegar! Does the hot chick go with it? :b

[upsdriver]

My kids gave me the iPod for Father’s day last year otherwise I wouldn’t have one either. Now that I have it, I love it! I’m able to carry my whole cd collection in my shirt pocket and listen to it while driving the miles!

[sfvgto]

his accountant just showed him his new tax bill and told him that the times they are a chinging

[Justice]

Anyone who was seduced by Oshama's words instead of listening to his Marxist positions on things is lacking in grey matter.

Dylan does not impress me at all as being too astute.

[Beowulf9]

“Yes, and for sure, he didn’t have to be.”

You know, one day when I was younger and enjoying the fun of youngness I thought, Jesus could’ve been going to those beautiful beaches in Italy, he could’ve been finding himself a woman, having a family, enjoying the world for himself.

He instead put his principals first. He was a courageous and selfless man, and whatever one considers who he was, he was extremely pure.

When Dylan got ‘fat’ he lost the muse. Obama is no ‘pure’ hero, he’s out for himself.

[don-o]

Does the hot chick go with it?

At your own risk, dear brother.

[don-o]

Dylan does not impress me at all as being too astute.

That says more about you than it does about Dylan.

[Justice]

I'm not sure why you think an ad hominem attack appropriate.

Anyone who has/had anything positive to say about our Marxist leader really can't be too bright IMHO.

[don-o]

Because you seem to be taking one statement on one subject and forming a judgement about the man Dylan. I found your comment unbalanced.

[kalee]

That’s the plan. Import the 3rd world inhabitants to American and demoralize the rest of us when we wake up to find the 3rd world hell holes those people left have arrived here with them.

[Justice]

you seem to be taking one statement on one subject and forming a judgement

That one subject is Oshama...a pretty big one.

Those who had hope that he would make a good leader are not exactly smart people.

That's just how it is. The smart ones used their brains and thought about his platform and knew it was evil, commie junk. They weren't emotionally swayed by his high-flung rhetoric. Those who weren't thinking (not brainy people) were caught up in emotional "hopes".

Those who thought/think well of the man are either emotionally swayed...not using their grey matter..or are commies themselves.

[susanelectro]

Don-O: Dylan made no definitive statement saying Obama would be a good President. He said he didn’t know. Going off of Bob’s past comments, I’d guess he wouldn’t agree with Obama policy wise, even if he admired him as a human being.

[uncitizen]

just listened to the clips of the songs from the new album. Real good. Nice easy bluesy sound. Very mellow.

[Randy Larsen]

Which One?

[Zionist Conspirator]

And how many times have I heard that “Bob Dylan isn’t really a liberal?”

[dragnet2]

“Right now America is in a state of upheaval,” he said. “Poverty is demoralising. You can’t expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor.

I guess all those monks are wrong.

If all people were monks, that might fit.

[Borges]

It didn't come across in his songs for the most part. In his autobiography from a few years ago he talks about how much he admired Barry Goldwater in the mid 1960s.