“You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.” Take that, Sean Wilentz. In an interview with The Times (concerning his touring art show), the freewheelin’ Bob Dylan backs Barack Obama. “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.”
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How wonderful… I’ve actually been wondering for some time what Dylan thought about all this. When I heard “The Times They Are a Changin'” the other day, I thought, how does someone who lived through the early 60s look at all this hope and upheaval and so on? After he’s gone through so much disillusionment over the years, is it possible to look at Obama and not think he’s total bullshit? “I used to care, but things have changed!”
Apparently he still hopes.