Forget Hendrix, Was Obama Quoting Muhammad Ali When He Said Critics ‘Talk About Me Like A Dog’?
Is President Obama a Mad Men fan? On Monday Obama gave a fiery Labor Day speech during which he accused the Republicans of talking about him “like a dog.” Some powerful interests that have been setting the agenda in Washington for a 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. Yesterday, Yahoo reported that the Obama may have pulled that line from an old Jimi Hendrix song. 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.” However the origin of the line may precede Hendrix. Barry Popik of the blog The Big Apple has dug up evidence that the line may belong to Muhammad Ali who “bellowed” it during a press conference 20 days before his famous knockout of Sonny Liston in their
