Organizing principles

If you've ever really struggled to make a distinction without a difference, you'll understand the dilemma facing Hillary Clinton at this point in her career. Consider her attempts to distance herself from the Leader of the Free World:

Hillary Clinton is taking on President Obama on the same issue he used against her in the 2008 Democratic primary: foreign policy vision.

Obama lacks a specific doctrine, according to an Atlantic magazine interview with Clinton, the unannounced presidential candidate who is leading Democrats and Republicans in 2016 polling.

“Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle,” Clinton told the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, also a Bloomberg View columnist, in reference to the way Obama and his aides describe his approach to foreign policy.

That’s a “political message” and “not his worldview,” she said.

So many questions begged here:

• So what, specifically, is the Obama worldview, then? She apparently seems to know. Perhaps she could share it.
• How could Clinton have worked for four years for someone who lacked a doctrine?
• One might have assumed, some time ago, that the "organizing principles" of a great nation are rooted in a constitution. Is Clinton arguing that Obama has somehow abandoned the organizing principles of a great nation? If so, that's quite a charge. And if she knew that, why wouldn't she have resigned her position and told the world?

Careerism isn't an organizing principle, either.