My take on Hillary Clinton's motives in breaking with Obama on foreign policy

[joshcryer]

17. The MSM wants a horse race.

And the only thing you can criticize Obama on is foreign policy mishaps (which aren't really, but that's how the media will portray them). She can come out and say, "You know, we had a rough go of it, we tried the reset button, but it didn't work. I personally would've done things differently."

Basically because her career as SoS was ultimately lackluster, she'll blame Obama for holding her back, and Obama can't disagree, because she did try to do things, like arming the Syrian rebels, which Obama balked at (Obama made the correct decision, I think, but there was more that could be done, such as arming Assad's regime with riot control stuff and allying with Iran; like how the Saudi's shut down the Bahrain protests).

So Clinton is clearly predicting an MSM horse race on foreign policy. Domestic policy can be easily managed. Come out for marijuana, there, you just won the youth vote. The MSM isn't going to be able to create a horse race any other way.