Posted on 04/06/2009 10:30:19 PM PDT by Schnucki
Up until now it had been a mutual love affair.
As the campaign for the American presidency gathered pace last June, Bob Dylan lent his support to Barack Obama, telling The Times that his candidacy was “redefining the nature of politics”.
In return Mr Obama described the singer as an icon, and boasted of having “probably 30 Dylan songs on my iPod”, including “the entire Blood on the Tracks album”.
But in an interview to be published on Dylan’s website today, the hero of 1960s counterculture seems to have cooled on the prospects of the recently elected American leader.
Asked if he thought that Mr Obama would make a good president, the singer said that he had no idea. He added: “Most of those guys come into office with the best of intentions and leave as beaten men.
“Johnson would be a good example of that . . . Nixon, Clinton in a way, Truman, all the rest of them going back. You know, it’s like they all fly too close to the Sun and get burnt.”
In a question-and-answer session with the music journalist Bill Flanagan to promote his new album Together Through Life, Dylan dismisses politics as “entertainment . . . a sport. It’s for the well-groomed and well-heeled. The impeccably dressed. Party animals. Politicians are interchangeable. Politics creates more problems than it solves. It can be counter-productive. The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don’t think they have titles.”
The singer’s comments seem to be a far cry from those he made in an interview with The Times last June, when he talked of his hope that Mr Obama could pioneer change in America.
“Right now America is in a state of upheaval,” he said. “Poverty is demoralising. You can’t
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I second that.
LOL! thanks for the big ceegar! Does the hot chick go with it? :b
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!
his accountant just showed him his new tax bill and told him that the times they are a chinging
Dylan does not impress me at all as being too astute.
“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.
At your own risk, dear brother.
That says more about you than it does about Dylan.
Anyone who has/had anything positive to say about our Marxist leader really can't be too bright IMHO.
Because you seem to be taking one statement on one subject and forming a judgement about the man Dylan. I found your comment unbalanced.
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.
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.
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.
just listened to the clips of the songs from the new album. Real good. Nice easy bluesy sound. Very mellow.
Which One?
And how many times have I heard that “Bob Dylan isn’t really a liberal?”
I guess all those monks are wrong.
If all people were monks, that might fit.
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