Hillary Clinton is running for something, but what?

New York Daily News: Sen. Hillary Clinton accepted the New York Democratic Party's nomination for re-election Wednesday with a speech that would have served quite nicely on the presidential campaign trail. Oh, wait, that's exactly where she is.
Far more (D-U.S.) than (D-N.Y.), Clinton spoke as a candidate for everywhere rather than as someone seeking re-election on the strength of her performance over the last six years. Her record representing the state was summed up in a gauzy video that cited, among other things, helping to secure $20 billion in federal aid after 9/11 and leading New York City restaurateurs on a wine tour of the Finger Lakes.
Clinton's emphasis spoke volumes about her transformation from carpetbagging, polarizing bogeywoman to national Democratic rock star and White House contender. In between, let us not forget, there's an election in November, shoo-in or not. A bit more of what she's done for us lately would be nice to hear, even if the Clinton cavalcade doesn't come close to visiting all 62 of the state's counties, as she famously did on her listening tour the last time around.
Centrist Democrat
Still and all, she made a neat, centrist Democratic presentation, mixing foward-looking themes with well-placed criticisms of President Bush for running an administration that has allowed ideology to trump "inconvenient facts" on scientific matters, staffed FEMA with cronies to disastrous effect, and called for breaking America's petroleum addiction while providing tax breaks to oil companies.
Avoided were far-left rantings about matters such as anti-terror data mining. As for Clinton's votes supporting the war, she backs the troops and wants Bush to press the new Iraqi government to take charge so American forces can come home. Safe. Reasonable. Inarguable.
In charting a course for, she hopes, a Democratic conquest of Congress in November, Clinton drew outlines of a message for a party badly in need of a message more constructive than despising Bush and the horse he rode in on.