"It looks like things are going to change now."

Selvom flertallet af de vælgere, der talte ved at stemme på Obama i går, kom til verden, da den forhenværende, nidkære kommunistjæger i HUAC, Komiteen til undersøgelse af uamerikansk virksomhed, Ronald Reagan, sad ved roret i 1980’erne, vil denne bloggerkugle, som så dagens lys, mens Lyndon B. Johnson svedte i Det Hvide Hus, stadig gerne høre hvad den generation, der blev født under Franklin D. Roosevelt, har at sige. Især ham den lille, mærkelige mand, som vi kender som Bob Dylan.

Her en øjenvidneskildring fra Northrop Auditorium i Minneapolis, Minnesota, fra tirsdag aften:

"I was born in 1941," he said, a wavering sentimentality in his scratchy voice. "That was the year they bombed Pearl Harbor. I've been living in darkness ever since. It looks like things are going to change now."

He turned back to his keyboard and led the band in an almost unrecognizable rendition of "Blowin' in the Wind." Throughout most of the set, Dylan opted to keep his voice low and sparse as he half-sang, half-coughed the words into the microphone, but at the end of "Blowin' in the Wind" he strained his voice to hit the high register of the original melody and held onto the words in the chorus as long as he could. When his voice couldn't bear any more, he picked up his harmonica and practically skipped to the center of the stage. Even from my seat in the balcony it was obvious that Dylan was excited, and it only served to further ignite the fired-up crowd.

As the entire sold-out room rose to its feet with praise, Dylan and his bandmates lined up at the front of the stage to take a bow. In his tight tuxedo pants and white wide-brimmed hat, Dylan danced around like a marionette doll, waving his pointer fingers in the air like guns. It was surprisingly charismatic and endearing moment, and it had the whole room roaring with cheers and applause.”