A Bizarre Claim

In a long political campaign there is no shortage of silly statements and bizarre comments but Howard Wolfson, a senior Hillary Clinton adviser, takes it to another level. Mr. Wolfson claims that Tuesday's political contests are not about his candidate, the loser of 11 straight primaries and caucuses, but about Barack Obama:

If you are acting like the nominee, if you are essentially declaring the race is over, you ought to be able to win the contests that are coming up. and if you don't, it says something profound about Democrats' unease with handing the nomination to somebody with such little experience and so many unanswered questions.

Perhaps profundity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder but it is difficult to ignore that Wolfson's candidate thus far has been unable to thwart her less experienced rival's challenge. That suggests an unease with Clinton's erstwhile inevitable presidential nomination.