At a Labor Day speech yesterday in Milwaukee, President Obama deviated from his prepared remarks to note that his critics in Washington "talk about [him] like a dog" because of his work against special interests. Whether or not this is true, given the way footage of the remark has been scorching up the Internet today, it seems likely that Obama's "dog" analogy will become a self-fulfilling prophecy:
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