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In what I see as a pretty unsurprising development but the Times Of London sees as something that “contains much symbolic significance,” Bob Dylan has endorsed Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy. “Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval,” he told the Times. “Poverty is demoralizing. 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.” [Times Online via RS]