http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25301622-5013871,00.html

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“ As
the campaign for the American presidency hotted up last June, Bob
Dylan lent his support to Barack Obama, telling The Times that his
candidacy was "redefining the nature of politics".

In
return Mr Obama described the singer as an icon, and boasted of
having "probably 30 Dylan songs on my iPod", including "the
entire Blood on the Tracks album". 

But in an interview
to be published on Dylan's website today, the hero of 1960s
counterculture seems to have cooled on the prospects of the recently
elected American leader. 

Asked if he thought that Mr Obama
would make a good president, the singer said that he had no idea. He
added: "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 burnt." 

In a
question-and-answer session with the music journalist Bill Flanagan
to promote his new album Together Through Life, Dylan dismisses
politics as "entertainment ... a sport. It's for the
well-groomed and well-heeled. The impeccably dressed. Party animals.
Politicians are interchangeable. Politics creates more problems
than it solves. It can be counter-productive. The real power is in
the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have
titles."  

1. who
   are these “small groups of people”?

2. People
   who got so excited when seeing Obama getting elected were so naïve
   that they believed Obama could be the solution to a lot of problems. 
   They obviously didn't know what American politics really is. What
   American politics is all about is that whoever becomes the President
   of the United States must faithfully perform all the duties assigned
   by that “small groups of people”, and no ifs, ands or buts about
   it.  If
   what Barack Obama really wants to do contradicts the beliefs and
   interests of that small groups of people, he will fold.