Obama: Special interests "talk about me like a dog." Watch.
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Obama: Special interests "talk about me like a dog." Watch.
In today's speech, Obama takes a clear shot at House Republicans and issues a warning shot to the deficit commission on Social Security: "To those who may still run for office planning to privatize Social Security, let me be clear: as long as I'm President, I'll fight every effort to take the retirement savings of a generation of Americans and hand it over to Wall Street. Not on my watch."
The President departed from his prepared remarks in Milwaukee to address how he's treated by the powerful interests in DC: "They talk about me like a dog. That's not in my prepared remarks ... but it's true." Video soon.
Late Update: Watch the video.
We've posted the text of the Labor Day speech President Obama is about to give in Milwaukee.
Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner (R-OH): "If we've learned anything from the past 18 months, it's that we can't spend our way to prosperity."
Following anti-American protests in Kabul over the planned burning of the Koran by that obscure Protestant church in Florida, Gen. David Petraeus says the desecration of the Koran "could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort."
He's been hoarding his campaign cash for the stretch run against gazillionaire Meg Whitman, and now Jerry Brown is starting to spend it. But this first TV ad makes me wonder. Shouldn't Brown avoid sepia tone? And do Californians really want a return to the 1970s? Take a look.
Muslim Americans begin to organize to push back against the current wave of Islamophobia.
A new lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act alleges that the health care reform law violates, among many others, the Third Amendment -- which bans the quartering of soldiers.