"Bob Dylan won’t be attending President Obama’s meet-and-greet on Wednesday with American Nobel Prize winners, the White House said."
ADDED: "Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery/Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your silence for snobbery..."
November 30, 2016
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I wonder if he would go if President Obama offered to stand naked?
Don't think twice, it's alright.
It ain't me, Babe.....
Oh no! Well, here come the calls that Bob Dylan is racist for not showing up in 3....2.....1!
I never cared much for Dylan or any of the folkie folk stuff, but he's starting to grow on me.
Way back in the day someone interviewed Bob Dylan and asked him about younger men burning their draft cards and he said they shouldn't be doing that. The horror, a countercultural icon with the occasional conservative sentiment!
Let us not talk falsely now, your term is getting late.
I just saw this on Fox News and thought I'd see if you had posted anything on this. He is showing a cantankerous side these days. Like DB Light above, he is starting to grow on me.
You'd want him to be skeptical of the enterprise.
"paminwi said...
Oh no! Well, here come the calls that Bob Dylan is racist for not showing up in 3....2.....1!"
You're not aware of the rules apparently.
I'll bet he would meet him out on Highway 61.
snub. VERB 1. rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully: Link.
Doubt it's a snub in the sense of showing disdain or making some sort of statement about Obama. More likely he's uncomfortable with the Nobel Prize hullabaloo.
Somewhere, I noted that Dylan told the Nobel committee that he "would be there, if at all possible", and then pulled a no-show.
Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football. I always enjoy watching that stuff.
Well, you can run down to the White House
You can gaze at the Capitol Dome, pretty mama
You can pound on the President’s gate
But you oughta know by now it’s gonna be too late
He apparently cared enough about his Presidential Medal of Freedom (awarded by Obama) to go pick it up. And he showed up at his Kennedy Honors celebration. He's appeared in person (or by satellite) to accept other awards and honors. Maybe he just doesn't think much of this one. Or maybe he'd feel awkward and a little foolish among the chemists, physicists and economists. Or maybe he enjoys having us take notice and ponder his inscrutable self. Or maybe he's just being Dylan.
Sometimes even the President of the United States has to be stood up
Didn't you tell him what a 'lovely man' Obama is?
Me Dylan continues to move up in my estimation.
"Didn't you tell him what a 'lovely man' Obama is?" I guess he doesn't advance-miss Obama, unlike some of his fans. If so, good for him.
"Bob Dylan snubs Obama."
I'm sorry. O-who?
Maybe Dylan figured that the whole Nobel Prize thing was devalued, since Obama got one without having done anything to earn it. Must not be that hard.
Is he snubbing the President or just downplaying the Nobel prize, as he's done all along?
...just another one of those haters and critics hounding poor, beset Obama.
I'm liking this Bob fella.
Bob might even be a birther. Note: He not busy being born is busy dying.. Does Bob only go to restaurants and bars that have Fox News on? If so, I think we have our answer: Bob Dylan is a prejudiced intolerant bigot who's responsible for the Democrat party losing political power over the last 8 years.
Don't tell anyone but Bob is still a Messianic Jew.
Bob is powerful.
He is. And this isn't even the first time Bob has snubbed the president. It's widely known but little talked of: Obama tapped Bob to be his Secretary of State back in '08. Bob said no, O said what? Bob said you can't have everything you want, O, but the next time you see Hillary, ask her. I gotta run.
"The Politics of Cool"
"How does it feel?"
Bob is STILL pissed about trying to enroll in Obamacare the day the website went live. Remember how slick that thing worked?
Traditional Guy, I never heard of Bob Dylan being a Messianic Jew before. Not all Jews who accept Jesus as the Messiah are Messianic Jews. I know of at least three different types. Jews who convert to Christianity and stop going to Synagogue and observing Jewish customs are one group. They are not considered Jews anymore at all--except maybe by Nazis. Jews who accept Jesus (Yeshua) as the true Jewish Messiah and the Son of God are another group. They have their own Synagogues and Rabbis, and follow all traditional Jewish customs and holidays--with a New Testament Scroll added to the Torah. Another group accepts Jesus as the Messiah, but not the Son of God, and merely a Prophet equal to Moses. Which one does Bob fall in?
Suddenly Dylan's motives are scrutable? I don't think so.
I don't see what the big deal is - even if he is a Nobel laureate, the fact is he's a has-been who's famous only because a bunch of hippies unaccountably consider his blathering to be profound, and I understand why Dylan doesn't want anything to do with him.
Not surprised at all. Most everything I've read over the years from Dylan himself talking politics and from others who actually knew him on a day-to-day basis all point to conservatism, in the old school working guy sense.
Eh, he oughter go and do a repeat of 2010 and sing "The Times They Are A-Changin", attired in a 'deplorable' t-shirt.
Dylan is astute enough and brave enough to avoid a ceremony that, in reality, will be another Obamagasm instead of truly honoring the deserving folks.
Bob Dylan was a good friend and an admirer of Johnny Cash so that's all I need to know that he's a fine American.
I think Dylan is recycling the old Groucho Marx idea; he looks at who's"in the club" i.e. our Nobel Peace Prize winning Presidentk, and decides he doesn't want to join---or at least join that subset of American Nobel Prize winners who will party with each other at Obama's direction. He's telling Obozo, that ain't me Babe! You're not the one I want Babe, you're not the one I need.
Dylan is one of those fellows upon whom much is projected. He is widely presumed to be some sort of leftist, but hasn't shown the evidence. He is against war (particularly its mechanized horrors) – but not for the enemy. Much of his stuff is personal. I believe that the only politician he ever spoke of favorably was Barry Goldwater.
bgates, you got me with that one.
Dylan isn't attending the Nobel awards ceremony because of "other commitments."
Here's hoping he fulfills the requirement to get his Nobel monetary award along with the medal: he must present a Nobel Lecture within 6 months of the awarding. I am unsure if he has to do so at some particular location or to some Nobel-associated group, or if just standing up for 5 minutes and riffing at a concert venue would suffice. But the award is close to a million bucks, so let's hope his manager (Does he have one? I'd suppose so!) pencils something in so Bob gets his medal and the cash.
bgates said...
I don't see what the big deal is - even if he is a Nobel laureate, the fact is he's a has-been who's famous only because a bunch of hippies unaccountably consider his blathering to be profound, and I understand why Dylan doesn't want anything to do with him.
11/30/16, 10:51 PM
Sir, you win.
I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you
Idiot wind
blowin through the Nobels
on our shelves
We are idiots, O
It's a wonder we can
even insure ourselves
Been shooting in the dark too long
When somethin’s not right it’s wrong
Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go
For the record a Messianic Jew is a Jew that has a relationship with the Messiah. They are still 100% Jewish and have only gained a knowledge of the Son of David, a/k/a the Messiah.
I'm going the extra mile here with a comment linking to the folks who take care of Bob Dylan: http://famous-relationships.topsynergy.com/Bob_Dylan/Contact.asp
Let's make sure Bob fulfills the requirements to get his Nobel payday! Call, text or email these fine managers, agents, lawyers to insure Dylan's legacy as recipient of the Nobel!
There are no Dems inside the Gates of Eden ...
bgates - double-plus good.
I think the reason Dylan went electric at Newport was that he was sick to death of commie folkies.
He couldn't very well go to the White House when he is not going to Stockholm.
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