WASHINGTON, June 10 (RIA Novosti), Lyudmila Chernova - Hillary Rodham Clinton's book “Hard Choices” is aimed at getting her ideas out, as well as addressing and framing any issues she has early, before a possible presidential campaign in 2016, believes Seton Motley, founder and president of Less Government.
“The book will help Clinton get some of the controversial stuff out of the way,” Motley told RIA Novosti Monday. “She will get it all discussed now in 2014, and that way both she and the media can then wave it off as old news if she actually decides to run,” he added.
Clinton’s book, Hard Choices, a memoir of her tenure at the State Department, is scheduled to hit the market Tuesday.
“I think what she wants to be able to do is to discuss all the controversial stuff like Benghazi, just the entire world in flames on her watch as the Secretary of State,” Motley underlined. “And when it is closer to any campaign, and Republicans will bring up some of that, she’ll say, ‘Oh, that’s old news, we discussed that a long time ago.’”
Motley also believes Clinton will have to distance herself from Obama to garner more support from voters. According to the excerpts from the book obtained by the Associated Press last week, Clinton urged President Barack Obama to reconsider the US embargo on Cuba.
“Because the one Hispanic voting bloc that was reliably Republican was the Cuban bloc, largely in Florida,” Motley explained, adding that the generations that escaped Cuba and voted Republican had given birth to children who were Americanized and voting much more Democratic.
“So, I think that may be a push and a pitch to get that vote, to look at her as their candidate in 2016. The cold war mentality towards Cuba is fading, and the position on it is softening,” Motley concluded.
The book also demonstrates Clinton had better assessments of many international affairs than Obama. “She is throwing Obama under the bus on very disastrous policies under the Obama administration, saying ‘I was trying to avert the disaster, but it was Obama who insisted on going down that path,’” Motley asserted.
Motley underlined that Clinton may be correctly writing history or rewriting history depending upon what actually happened. “One of the biggest advantages for her with this book is knowing who in the room is going to contradict her if she is not telling the truth,” he said. “So, she can say and frame it any way she wants, and she likely won’t be challenged on it.”
