Reply #13: Pete Seeger was definitely part of the political left...

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And I do know that Dylan sung at many more than just one political event - just to name a few, the March on Washington, civil rights rallies in the South including one in Greensboro, and others if you care to look them up.

They did pressure him to keep playing and singing in a certain vein that promoted their agenda - not that their agenda was "wrong" necessarily, but there was a sense of coercion that he dealt with.

And I agree with pretty much the rest of what you wrote.

My greater point is that I think Obama is in the same situation. I think he's going to break the paradigm and piss off people who are used to working within a certain political framework.

That's what I was getting at.