Wall Street Journal Editor Daniel Henninger wants to know:

Barack Obama was bleeding by Monday and needed cover. Where, when he could have used them, were Obama's oh-so-famous endorsers: Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Oprah, John Kerry, Chris Dodd, Patrick Leahy, Tom Daschle, Amy Klobuchar, Claire McCaskill, Jay Rockefeller, John Lewis, Toni Morrison, Roger Wilkins, Eric Holder, Robert Reich, Ted Sorenson, Alice Walker, David Wilhelm, Cornel West, Clifford Alexander, Donald McHenry, Patricia Wald, Newton Minow?

Where were all the big-city mayors who went over to the Obama camp: Chicago's Richard Daley, Cleveland's Frank Jackson, Atlanta's Shirley Franklin, Washington's Adrian Fenty, Newark's Cory Booker, Baltimore's Sheila Dixon?

So why did they hang Obama out to dry?

There's also that old saying that everybody wants to be with a winner. But this race is so close that the slightest ripple can be disruptive, and Jeremiah Wright can hardly be described as a ripple. He's more like a train wreck, but even that doesn't quite describe him, because he just keeps on wrecking the train. He's more on the level of a psychotic railroad engineer from Hell. Because he is forever linked with Obama, he has the ability to damage him as often as he (or whoever hires him) desires.

Now, without getting into paranoid conspiracy speculation about whether Team Hillary was behind the latest smash-up, once the trainwreck occurred, another political principle kicked in beyond mere survival. That's damage control, which is driven by fear. The Clintons are known to be mean, vindictive, vengeful people. This is so well known that it's a major factor in the wholesale desertions of the former Clintonistas. They don't merely dislike them, but they fear them. So naturally, when it looks like Hillary might be the nominee again, it's time to play political CYA. Lie low for awhile, and wait till the coast is clear.

After all, who wants to get on one of Hillary's enemy's lists?

If Hillary had any sense (and I think she has a lot of sense), she'd be running the equivalent of a political amnesty right now.

All is forgiven, and welcome back!

But it's a limited time offer so you better hurry!

Or you'll be sorry.