Legal Commentary

Bob Dylan on Barack Obama: "He?s like a fictional character, but he?s real."

First off, his mother was a Kansas girl. Never lived in Kansas though, but with deep roots. You know, like Kansas bloody Kansas. John Brown the insurrectionist. Jesse James and Quantrill. Bushwhackers, Guerillas. Wizard of Oz Kansas. I think Barack has Jefferson Davis back there in his ancestry someplace. And then his father. An African intellectual. Bantu, Masai, Griot type heritage - cattle raiders, lion killers. I mean it?s just so incongruous that these two people would meet and fall in love. You kind of get past that though. And then you?re into his story. Like an odyssey except in reverse.

BF: In what way?

BD: First of all, Barack is born in Hawaii. Most of us think of Hawaii as paradise ? so I guess you could say that he was born in paradise....

BF: What in his book would make you think he?d be a good politician?

BD: Well nothing really....

BF: Do you think he?ll make a good president?

BD: I have no idea. He?ll be the best president he can be. Most of those guys come into office with the best of intentions and leave as beaten men. Johnson would be a good example of that ? Nixon, Clinton in a way, Truman, all the rest of them going back. You know, it?s like they all fly too close to the sun and get burned.

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Full post as published by Althouse on April 06, 2009 (boomark / email).