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Input: Hillary Clinton is carefully dipping her toes into the 2016 waters — too carefully, some of her supporters say. 
  
 Clinton’s allies say she’s been too cautious and scripted with some of her actions this year, such as when she was slow to put out a response to the August shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. 
  
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 They argue that if the former secretary of State learned one thing during the 2008 primaries, it was this: Voters like to see Hillary Clinton uncut and unvarnished, not deliberative and cautious. 
  
 They prefer the Hillary Clinton who speaks off the cuff, cracks jokes and shows emotion. 
  
 They like the woman who dodged the shoe in Las Vegas and responded with a funny retort. Or the woman who made a spontaneous appearance on “The Daily Show” and quipped about wanting an office “with fewer corners.” 
  
 When she cried in New Hampshire ahead of the state’s primary in 2008, voters saw a rare glimpse of a relatable Clinton, and days later she pulled off a remarkable victory. 
  
 Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist who worked closely with Clinton when he served as the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy’s press secretary and an aide on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said he’s witnessed a different Clinton behind the curtain. 
  
 “In years past, when I used to see her, I was often struck by how much more open she was behind the scenes than she was in her public persona,” Manley said, adding that there’s a “cautiousness based in part on the fact that everything she does is so heavily scrutinized.” 
  
 Asked if the cautiousness is something Team Clinton recognizes as a problem should she run in 2016, Manley continued, “If they’re looking for lessons from 2008, I sure as hell hope so.” 
  
 Clinton was the favorite in 2008, too, and ran a notably cautious campaign in trying to fend off then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. Unlike the Obama campaign, for instance, she failed to highlight the historic nature of her campaign until her concession speech. And she was criticized for acting standoffish with the press. 
  
 She ended up placing second to Obama in the Democratic primary. 
  
 This year, her caution has been partially rooted in a desire to stay out of the news, particularly while she’s not a candidate and is out of public office. 
  
 Her first comments on the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson came on Aug. 28, weeks after the shooting had become headline news across the country. Clinton had been on vacation, but her absence from the public debate was notable and drew calls for her to weigh in from MSNBC host Al Sharpton. 
  
 Clinton has also sought to avoid gaffes, such as when she spoke about how she and former President Bill Clinton were “dead broke” at the end of his presidency. 
  
 The remarks during a promotional appearance for her book Hard Choices, which may have been intended to make Clinton seem relatable, led to criticism that the former first lady was out of touch. It amounted to a major misstep that drowned out part of the message of the book tour. 
  
 “It did seem surprisingly tone-deaf,” said Katherine Jellison, a professor of history at Ohio University, adding that Clinton “overplayed her hand.” 
  
 “I think it showed her that she has to be more careful with her comments than when she was secretary of State,” said Jellison. “I think gaffes like that are what her advisers are helping her avoid.” 
  
 Clinton, who is not yet a formal candidate for the White House, is transitioning from her four years as secretary of State. She was followed at Foggy Bottom by a wonky and substantive State Department press corps — not a political press scrutinizing her every word. 
  
 During her time at State, Clinton seemed to relish the unscripted moment. She danced in South Africa, drank beer in Colombia and was in on the joke when two savvy public relations types came up with the now famous meme “Texts from Hillary.” 
  
 Over the weekend, when the Democratic front-runner in the presidential race visited Iowa, she held up her arms and quipped, “I’m ba-ack!” The crowd, looking for any sign that the former secretary of State would once again be running for president, reveled in the moment. 
  
 “I sensed she was being a bit more open in her body language,” said Jellison. “She had a more folksy persona than she does sometimes. She did seem loosened up a bit compared to some of her other appearances.” 
  
 Some in the Clinton orbit acknowledge Clinton is cautious — more so than her husband, who relishes retail politics. 
  
 But they argue those are “net positives.” 
  
 “ ‘Careful and cautious’ are different from ‘orchestrated and scripted,’ primarily in that the latter adjectives imply the candidate is being told what to do, which is not the case with her,” said a former Clinton aide who still maintains contact with the former secretary. 
  
 Calls for Clinton to completely let her hair down in public are going to be in vain, the aide said. 
  
 In the end, Team Clinton doesn’t think that would suit her. 
  
 “Anyone expecting her to go Bulworth is dreaming and a Bulworth would never win, no matter how appealing to the media,” the aide said, referencing the eponymous 1998 film. ||||| Former Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is greeted by local residents before working the grill at U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's annual fundraising Steak Fry, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. (Charlie Neibergall/AP) 
  
 Judging by her weekend appearance in Iowa, it looks as if Hillary Clinton is indeed running for president. Now she has to answer one simple question: Why? 
  
 “It is true, I am thinking about it,” she said Sunday at the final Harkin Steak Fry, an annual cholesterol-boosting fundraiser that Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who is retiring, has hosted for 37 years. Given the context, this was pretty close to an announcement of the Clinton 2016 campaign. 
  
 She was in Iowa, whose first-in-the-nation caucuses kick off presidential primary season. She was accompanied by her husband, Bill, who did his best to play the supporting role of a candidate’s spouse, although second fiddle is an instrument he has not quite mastered. She greeted the crowd by announcing, “Hello, Iowa, I’m baaaaack,” stretching the word for emphasis. 
  
 The last time she barnstormed through Iowa, it did not go well. The 2008 caucuses were supposed to ratify her status as the Democratic front-runner and show her challengers the futility of their puny efforts. Instead, she finished third, behind Barack Obama and John Edwards. The Clinton machine lost the air of inevitability that had been its greatest asset — and turned out to lack a compelling message that could compete with Obama’s promise of hope and change. 
  
 Now Clinton begins another campaign — perhaps — in which she is seen as the inevitable winner. She has said she will make a firm decision “probably after the first of the year.” But if she has reached the point of dropping broad hints, she needs to begin telling the nation how and why she proposes to lead. 
  
 The election of the first woman as president would be a great milestone, but a glance at the headlines — economic and social dislocation at home, terrorism and war abroad — suggests that voters will not likely be in the mood for symbolic gestures. To win the nomination, let alone the general election, Clinton will have to lay out her vision of the way forward. 
  
 Her memoir of the years she spent as secretary of state, “Hard Choices,” offers little guidance. My view is that Clinton did an excellent job as America’s chief diplomat, but if she has an overarching philosophy of foreign relations, she left it out of the book. We know that President Obama believes in multilateralism and the sparing use of U.S. military force. We know that some critics believe we should be more interventionist and others believe we should be more isolationist. “Hard Choices” doesn’t really tell us which way Clinton leans, though her record suggests a slight nod toward the hawkish side. 
  
 In the book, Clinton rejects the idea of choosing between the “hard power” of military might and the “soft power” of diplomacy, sanctions and foreign aid. Instead, she advocates “smart power,” which seems to mean “all of the above.” When I hear officials talking about “smart” this or “smart” that, I hear a buzzword that is often meant to obscure policy choices rather than illuminate them. 
  
 Clinton’s message on domestic affairs is also unclear. At the Iowa event, she sounded what is sure to be a major theme for both Democrats and Republicans in the coming campaign: the need to ease the plight of the beleaguered middle class. 
  
 “Today, you know so well, American families are working harder than ever, but maintaining a middle-class life feels like pushing a boulder uphill every single day,” she said, adding that “we can build a growing economy of shared prosperity.” 
  
 If this indicates she is beginning to formulate a populist appeal, she will find that territory already staked out by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — a non-candidate who nevertheless had sign-carrying supporters in the Iowa crowd. Warren’s blistering critique of structural economic inequality is popular with liberal Democrats, some of whom see Clinton as too cozy with Wall Street. 
  
 When Warren is asked about her intentions, her standard formulation is “I am not running for president,” using the present tense — which doesn’t definitively rule anything out. It seems likely, in any event, that someone will challenge Clinton from the left. 
  
 After Clinton’s brief speech, her husband tried his best not to steal the show. Bill Clinton tossed out lines that can only be called Clintonesque — “We have got to pull this country together to push this country forward” — and implored Democrats and Republicans to find ways to work together. 
  
 Centrist pragmatism as a campaign theme? In U.S. politics today, the middle is a dangerous place to be. 
  
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Output:
Hillary Clinton's appearance in Iowa last weekend—"I'm baaaaack," she told the crowd—brings us closer to the political reality everybody expects: She's running in 2016. But then what? wonders Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post. Electing a female president might be a "great milestone," he writes, but given all that's happening in the world, "voters will not likely be in the mood for symbolic gestures." No, if Clinton wants to win, she needs to lay out the specifics of her vision. On foreign policy, for instance, she likes to talk about "smart power," which Robinson thinks is a vague, buzzword-y phrase that allows her to duck out of tough choices. Domestically, she talks a good game about the middle class, but she'll have to do better than platitudes, given her past ties to Wall Street and the potential challenge from the left by Elizabeth Warren. "Centrist pragmatism as a campaign theme? In US politics today, the middle is a dangerous place to be," writes Robinson. At the Hill, Amie Parnes writes that many Clinton supporters fear that she often comes off as out of touch and want to see her "uncut and unvarnished, not deliberative and cautious." Don't count on it, says one former aide, referencing a 1998 movie of note: “Anyone expecting her to go Bulworth is dreaming, and a Bulworth would never win, no matter how appealing to the media." Click for Parnes' full story, or Robinson's full column.