Barack Obama and Bob Dylan deliver the same message of peace

When I was a little boy, in our house just west of Chicago, my dad, the first full-time civil rights reporter in Chicago, introduced me to a young singer named Bob Dylan by playing"Blowin’ in the Wind" for me and trying to tell me what it means.

Tonight, in an auditorium at the University of Minnesota, I listened as an old Dylan told an excited crowd of nearly 5,000,"It seems like we are going to have change now," before closing his concert with a moving version of "Blowin’ in the Wind."

Tonight, I knew what it meant