George Will Knows the Working Class?

Economic worries overcome key group's reservations about Obama

(NEWSER) - America's "Jane Sixpacks" are leaning toward the Democratic ticket in growing numbers, the Wall Street Journal reports. White, working-class women voters make up nearly a quarter of the electorate, and polls are finding that the economic crisis is convincing more voters in this vital group to back Barack Obama, especially in swing states like Michigan and Ohio. More»

Bob Casey defends Obama from attacks left and right

(NEWSER) - "Bittergate" erupted on talk shows today as pundits hammered Barack Obama for calling some rural voters "bitter," the Swamp blog reports. “He’s going to have to do some more explaining about this,” Clinton ally James Carville said. "It's big," said George Will. One GOP strategist called it "a general election nightmare" for Obama and the Democrats. More»

Dean: green jobs czar 'brought down'; CDC chief warns of swine flu challenges

(NEWSER) - Who says bipartisanship in Washington is dead? Today, top Republicans sided with President Obama on both his planned speech to schoolchildren and his strategy in Afghanistan, Politico reports. On Fox News Sunday, Newt Gingrich called Obama’s Tuesday speech “good for America.” On Afghanistan, Tim Pawlenty rejected calls by conservative columnist George Will for Obama to remove troops. “We need to make sure that when the US goes to war, it is successful,” the Minnesota governor told State of the Union. More»

(NEWSER) - For some the death of Robert McNamara was the last chapter of a bygone disaster, but as George Will writes, Barack Obama and his team have more in common with the architect of Vietnam than they realize. McNamara's "eerie assuredness pervades the Washington in which he died," writes the Washington Post columnist, who chides the liberal establishment for believing it can have "everything—really everything—under control." More»

'Dependency agenda' is corrupt: Will

(NEWSER) - It’s easy for President Obama to be a bold leader, given his administration's “careless regard for constitutional values” and burgeoning “tincture of lawlessness,” writes George Will in the Washington Post. Obama is pursuing a dependency agenda, he argues, “maximizing the number of people and institutions dependent on the federal government.” He recently threatened to withhold California’s stimulus money, for example, if the state didn’t reinstate a costly, corrupt program to care for the elderly. More»