An architect, or asleep at the wheel?

Victor Davis Hanson writes at PJ Media,

Hillary can also play the outsider and run on her record as an outlier secretary of State, as if she kept her finger in the dike as the Obama foreign policy collapsed. That is a stretch, because Clinton was central to the Benghazi fiasco. Her fingerprints are all over the Libyan implosion and failed reset with Vladimir Putin. Her naiveté about Bashar Assad (“reformer”) is infamous. At best she was asleep at the wheel when Obama moved away from Israel and toward Iran; at worst, she was an architect of that transmogrification.

Given the above, Hillary can run on the promise of being our first female president and try to avoid any specifics and as many interviews as possible. Soak the rich like herself, attack Fox and the right-wing press, warn about the Republicans’ war on women and minorities — that’s about the extent of her toolbox. She won’t pledge any new tax or entitlement or budgetary reform, and instead will hope that no one cares, as no one cared during the era of vacuous hope and change. If Obama icon-ed his way to the White House, why cannot she?

Her nomination hinges on a five-hour work day of light campaigning, doing softball interviews with preselected toadies, shaking down big green, gay, and feminist bankrollers, damning right-wing news, shrilly slurring Fox News, and hoping that she can stay on the Obama reservation and not earn a David Petraeus-like indictment from the Obama Justice Department.

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