To anybody who heard or read the news article in the (London?) Times that Bob Dylan came out with a “ringing endorsement” of Barack Obama, let it be known that he apparently did NOTHING OF THE SORT. he gave an interview intended to discuss his drawings and other artwork, and at the end the interviewer asked him one question on his view of the US political campaign. If you read the interview, or even the quote, closely, he really didn’t do too much more than mention Obama’s name!

http://www.nme.com/news/bob-dylan/37146

Dylan has never in 40 years endorsed a candidate or expressed a preference in an election. The only one I’m aware of is the one in his recent book where he says his favorite politician was Barry Goldwater!
Although it’s quite possible he’d do it now for the first time (he’s done the unexpected many times before), there is only one source for this story, an edited transcript of an interview devoted to something else. So far there’s no independent evidence for this interview.

And, if one believes he was insincere or was joking in his remark about Goldwater, then why believe he’d be sincere in a remark about Obama?

If you want to read a real endorsement of Obama by a singer, compare Dylan’s with the one by Joan Baez last February:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/04/6833/

the differences should be palpable.