Tue Sep 7, 12:10 pm ET

Obama channels Hendrix on critics: ‘They talk about me like a dog’

By Holly Bailey

Has President Obama been listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix lately?  With just under two months to go before Election Day, Obama kicked off the fall campaign season Monday with an aggressive speech targeting Republicans. But it was an off-script moment in the speech that's attracted the most attention, as Obama accused his GOP critics of talking about him "like a dog."

"Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time –– and they're not always happy with me –– they talk about me like a dog. That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true," Obama said during a speech at Wisconsin's Laborfest on Monday.


Though Obama didn't acknowledge it, the line was a verbatim quote from "Stone Free," the first song Hendrix wrote after moving to England in 1966. "They talk about me like a dog," the song says. "Talkin about the clothes I wear. But they don't realize they're the ones who's square."

It's unclear if Obama consciously or unconsciously cited the lyric. A White House spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.

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Obama has an amazingly bad idea of what people want to hear from a president.



This "treat me like a dog" stuff is whiny.



Presidents are never supposed to be whiny, they are supposed to be capable instead.



whiny = wussy



what a dope, he made himself look even worse than usual.

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And it wasn't even that great of a line to begin with....