[I]f you want to know what Clinton thinks about something … start by reading her book.
Seitz-Wald is on the Clinton beat and unlike many of his fellows is actually coming at the story from a fresh perspective instead of recycling tired old tropes about cackling, calculating 90s era “narratives” that offer absolutely nothing relevant for political observers in 2015. So far, his work is quite informative.
In this piece he notes that Clinton’s book Hard Choices, like all serious campaign books, offers a good starting point from which to understand the candidate’s philosophy policy positions. It’s not comprehensive, of course, but it serves as a reasonable blueprint of her priorities going into this campaign. If you read it you will have a good starting point from which to question more deeply or tease out details that are relevant to a particular issue. Not to mention answers to at least a few of what seem to be burning questions among the Villagers who continuously complain that she is refusing to say where she stands. They clearly haven’t bothered to read it.
She is not the first to plan her campaign around such an outline and use her book as the basis for her run. Indeed, unless a candidate decides to write a polemic about God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, for instance (which is also a legitimate approach, by the way) it’s a standard approach.
