Spin Cycle

Having held forth on Sunday on Sen. Clinton's frontrunner status, the NYT holds forth again today on same, though it casts the story as one about how it might change.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg criticizes the Edwards/Clinton approach to health care, a discordant note after a week full of learning-from-her-scars huzzahs. He, strangely, focuses on whether it will actually work rather than the redemptive personal story of Hillary's growth or the political brilliance of the approach. He says it won't.

And the Boston Globe has an interesting look at the Norman Hsu mess, trying to make the case that Hillary's campaign didn't merely get money from him -- it used him to raise money for other people, almost like a campaign aide. Did that give her a greater obligation to find out if he was a criminal or not?

The campaign makes no apologies. Hillary, this weekend, called Hsu's past a "rude awakening." But it still hasn't explained why a fundraising official vouched for Hsu in June with "100 percent" certainty despite a warning, and why spokesman Howard Wolfson vouched for him again publicly when the controversy broke in August. Who exactly was Hsu's godfather behind all the vouchings?