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Barack Obama and Bob Dylan deliver the same message of peace
Bill Clements//November 4, 2008
When I was a little boy, in our house just west of Chicago, my dad, the first full-time civil rights reporter in Chicago, introduced me to a young singer named Bob Dylan by playing"Blowin’ in the Wind" for me and trying to tell me what it means.
Tonight, in an auditorium at the University of Minnesota, I listened as an old Dylan told an excited crowd of nearly 5,000,"It seems like we are going to have change now," before closing his concert with a moving version of "Blowin’ in the Wind."
Tonight, I knew what it meant
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