Bob Dylan says Barack Obama is 'changin' America

[ClayZ]

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

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In an exclusive interview with The Times, published 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."

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[speedoo]

1. K&R. Listen to Bob! nt

[Patchuli]

2. The times they are a'changing!!

And it's about f'ing time...I'm happy that Bob endorsed the Dem candidate publicly.

[1776Forever]

3. Come gather 'round people - The Times They Are A'Changin

The Times They Are A'Changin
by Bob Dylan

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'.

[ClayZ]

4. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin' (Unreleased 1976)

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

K

[1776Forever]

5. Thank you! Enjoyed it!

[janet118]

6. It's almost like he could see the future

He's a poet and a prophet.

"Let us not talk falsely now. The hour is getting late."
- Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower

[SparkyMac]

7. Bob Dylan wouldn't know his hippy burro -- from a rat burrow

[RichardRay]

8. Huh?

[ClayZ]

9. ditto...Huh?

K