David Brooks: Hillary Clinton ‘Has No Narrative’ So She’s Using ‘Obama’s Narrative’

WOODRUFF: "How did you see the dynamics going into the debate last night?
BROOKS: "Well, going into the debate, it was a question of how aggressive she would get, and would she get overly aggressive or not? I thought her demeanor, especially in the first half-hour, 45 minutes, was quite good. She can be sometimes lecturing. But she was more explaining, because — you were there, Judy, so you might know this."
WOODRUFF: "I know this."
BROOKS: "That they were — it was a debate over pragmatism vs. vision."
WOODRUFF: "Right."
BROOKS: "And she was saying, well, you know, that’s not reality. You can’t start the health care system as if we don’t have a health care system; 100 million people have their employer health care. You just can’t do that. And so she was trying to explain reality to them. And I thought she was quite effective. I think, toward the end, one of have the central facts in the structure of the race, the first is pragmatism vs. his radical vision, but the second is, on what ground is this debate being fought? And because he has such a strong narrative and his campaign is built around that narrative, his life is built around that narrative, it’s always fought on his ground. And she has no narrative. And she’s trying to create one with Obama, but that’s Obama’s narrative. And so I think, as the domestic part went on, he sort of gained strength just by the structure of the way the argument is."