Meanwhile, Hillary’s operation promises to be entertaining. There have been news reports of infighting among her proto-campaign high command (never a good sign) that included the leak of emails thought to be embarrassing to an aspirant for campaign manager (never a good precedent).
Most telling—and damaging—she still has no core message. This is 22 months following her resignation as secretary of state. She suggested to Charlie Rose on July 17 that she might focus on what to do “to tackle growth, which is the handmaiden of inequality.” That sounds less like a message than a tactic to placate the Democratic Party’s populist Occupy Wall Street wing with a pale imitation of Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Even her husband frets she doesn’t have a message. Former President Clinton recently told CNN that “we’ve reached a point in our life when we think you really shouldn’t run for office if you don’t have a clear idea of what you can do and a unique contribution you can make and you can outline that. Now that the book is done, she wants time to think about that and work through it. I think so much of politics is background noise, and we don’t need the background noise anymore.”
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