The Washington Post front page today carried the headline “Hillary Clinton Crafts Centrist Stance on War.” Reporter Dan Balz says she’s been “steadfastly centrist,” but her “careful balance” is drawing “increasing scorn” from the left. Like other Democrats ambitious for the presidency, she is “caught between the passions of the antiwar left and political concerns that they remain vulnerable to charges of weakness from the Republicans if they embrace the party’s base.”

If I was the headline editor there, I’d suggest you could certainly use the headline “Clinton War Stance Draws Increasing Scorn from Left,” something that acknowledges her left-wing base problem. The Post home page has a less favorable headline today: “Clinton Crafts Vague War Stance.” That puts her right in the Democratic mainstream…