Philip Roth, the prominent novelist summed up one of the main arguments against the importance of Ms. Clinton’s nuanced plans and in favor of Mr. Obama’s style of letting voters understand how he thinks:
They’ll respond to particular situations as they arise.
Mr. Roth dismisses the talk as “pure semantics”, and favors Mr. Obama because he wants a black president. But his summary of what each candidate will do in office is essentially correct. We cannot know what any candidate will do – even if a candidate puts forth a 12-point plan outlining exactly what they want – because in the end, Presidents are mainly driven by “particular situations as they arise.”
History demonstrates this clearly.