The Times They Are A-Changin!

[charlie and algernon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItPz7f-k-dE&feature=related

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'.




GOBAMA! YES WE CAN!

[democrattotheend]

1. That song has always reminded me of Obama and his campaign

As a young person volunteering on his campaign, that song really hits home with me. Although I guess I am not rebelling against my elders the way some young Obama supporters are, since my parents and grandparents support him.

[skooooo]

5. always??

You mean since last year?

What did it mean to you before?

:-)

[democrattotheend]

16. Always as in the last few months

You're right, always was an overstatement.

[BklynChick]

2. I was listening to that song yesterday. Very apropos. k/r

[charlie and algernon]

4. i wish i had internet access yesterday

I was thinking of it too yesterday, but couldn't listen to it.

It's a big time transistion period this country is going through. The times are certianly changing

[BlooInBloo]

3. Party realignment baby!

[charlie and algernon]

7. i don't think it's a realignment, but a changing of the guard

The politics of the past being replaced by the hope of a better future.

[BlooInBloo]

9. Tomato, tomato.

(That doesn't work quite as well in writing.)

[charlie and algernon]

11. haha, yeah, that's better said, but I get your point

[DCofVA]

6. Maybe someone with the talent and the time could make an Obama video to it. hint..hint

[charlie and algernon]

10. that would be awsome

I wish I had the no how and the ability to do it myself.

[calimary]

8. Always loved that song!

This is a truly revolutionary moment in our history, and I'm SO thrilled and excited and awed to witness it and play a small part in it. Granted, I'd feel similarly with the sea change that a Clinton win would mean.

At ANY rate, it means a whole new day in America! The END of the All-White-Men's-Club! That's no longer an exclusive domain anymore. We, the previously disenfranchised, have now broken the doors down and worked our way in. Barack will carry the rest of us who've always been kept locked out, with our noses pressed against the glass, INSIDE (yes, just as Hillary would have, also).

It's a win for ALL OF US. ALL OF US. Hillary supporters too. This is the year the perennially locked-out since the very dawning of our history, as long as there has been an America in the first place, FINALLY GET IN!!! The last glass ceiling just cracked, bigtime. In November, we'll shatter it completely.

:party: :toast: :woohoo: :applause: :headbang: :bounce: :grouphug: :thumbsup:

[charlie and algernon]

15. exactly

This is a truly historic moment. Students will be reading about this race in American history textbooks for decades. How fitting it is that the convention will take place at the 40th anniversery of MLK's I Have A Dream speech. I was telling a co-worker that Obama could bring the convention to tears with an acceptance speech on that anniversery. I think that's when it will finally sink in, no matter who the nominee is, that a non-white male will be a serious major candidate for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

[calimary]

18. No shit? What a coincidence - nothing could be more significant. I bet it'll be brought up, too.

Somebody's gonna bring that up as an anniversary note during or leading up to the convention coverage and it'll be a really epochal connection when people start thinking about that and it seeps into the national ground. It'll be like so many raindrops on a very parched field. Life can re-ignite then. Almost as though we have Dr. King's blessing! Is that cool, or what?

[SteppingRazor]

12. I should really lock this.

Somewhere in the DU rules, there's gotta be something about posting Dylan lyrics without supplying an accompanying YouTube. :P


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

[charlie and algernon]

14. fixed!

[JackORoses]

13. Come Senator Clinton, please heed the call. Don't stand in the Doorway, don't block up that Hall.

[Zomby Woof]

17. Be careful of one who promises 'change'

And promises to deliver that 'change' from within the system.

Obama, like the others who have promised change before him, will inevitably serve the needs of the system first.

When he disappoints, do not blame the media, the pundits, the hapless DLC, or the countless other scapegoat bogeymen. The buck stops here, as Harry Truman famously put it. Or is hypocrisy about personal responsibility no longer the dominion of the Republicans?

Just wait until the NSA is through with him after his first briefing. He will find that maybe he should have served a few more terms in the senate, maybe actually compiled a record beyond the Illinois statehouse, and learned how things are really done in Washington. 'Change' will hit the skids right out of the chute. For those willing to suck it up and not blame and point fingers, the disillusionment will set in by April or May. Prepare yourself for press conferences where 'new facts have come to light' or 'I reached across the aisle, and got my hand bit', et al, ad nauseum. Of course, there will be the hardcore True Believers, who will steadfastly stand by him, saying he can do no wrong (and the cycle of scapegoating and denial of personal responsibility will continue).

'Change' is one of the greatest rhetorical gasbag words in the lexicon of American politics. One cannot govern like one campaigns. Obama will not deliver 'change' to any significant degree. Unless he can ramrod The New Deal II through Congress and over the throngs of salivating lobbyists, there will be no real 'change'.

My dissent about 'change' aside, I sure as hell want us to win. I think by default, not having Bush in there anymore would be valid change. But it won't be 'change'.