Spin Cycle

There’s an intriguing news nugget in the Times’ Monday profile of Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton’s ubiquitous consultant.
Wolfson, reports Ray Hernandez, "will oversee the fabled Clinton war room as Mrs. Clinton steps further onto the national stage. The operation has a pivotal task: researching the records and backgrounds of opponents, writing Mrs. Clinton’s policy statements, responding to criticism from opponents and keeping tabs on the legions of reporters whose coverage of her shapes her public image."
So why set up a war room (a phrase that Clinton herself coined during the ’92 race) if you ain’t going to fight a war?

Glenn Thrush