On the heels of the 'Hard working white americans' nonsense from the Clinton, comes the lastest version of race-baiting from their campaign.

Bill Clinton has been spewing his nonsense about suspicious figures trying to push his wife out of the race, saying that no one asked Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson or Gary Hart to end their presidential campaigns early.

Clinton also spoke against bullying superdelegates to make up their minds, saying, "I cant believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out. 'Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her. Oh, this is so terrible: She is winning the general election, and he is not. Oh my goodness, we have to cover this up.'"

Oh Bill...

The Field has the numbers.

We've now gone down the rabbit hole, through the looking glass, and have settled in Bizarro World. Enough alternate-world cliches' for ya? Well, Bill's latest outburst will have you looking for the drugs so you can take a visit to wherever he is residing.

More absolute shamelessness from the Hillary campaign. On the heels of the CNN report that formal discussions about VP are underway (using sourcing from the Hillary camp), she is now blaming this news story on the Obama campaign. Shamelessness ahoy!

While the general election seems to be starting in earnest with Obama going after McCain/Bush, it has not gone unnoticed that Hillary has largely been left on the sidelines. In an interview with Glamour(!), McCain takes the opportunity to put the shiv in the side.

Per Politico.

The MSM is starting to move in full force toward the general election. Last week we had TIME declaring Obama the winner.To that end, Newsweek gives us a look at what to look forward to for the next six months.

No, he isn't changing his endorsement, but he is none too pleased with Clinton's talk about white voters. Good for him.

FYI: The quote at the bottom is, "Really we're pretty sure this time."

No, I'm not talking about her Iran saber-rattling. I'm talking about damning the common-sense torpedoes and moving to ramming speed, blowing up the Democratic Party in the process.

The Kantor Indiana story is starting to hit the mainstream, and Kantor has responded to Huffpo.

Obama has started pushing back hard on the transparent attempt by Clinton and McCain to pander to voters. He's going after them in speeches, and now he's using the internets to prove his points.

Ryan Lizza from the New Yorker has a fascinating piece up on a part of the campaign that hasn't really been covered, the Bill Clinton/Obama dynamic, and Bill's inability to adjust to the new media age.

I've written a number of diaries on Obama and basketball. It's his first love, after all. He is wisely using his love of basketball in Indiana, a basketball-crazed state, holding a 3-on-3 game tonight. The game below the jump.

This is pretty outrageous. John McCain, who has been skirting campaign finance laws at nearly every turn, gets a helping hand and a big discount for one of his fundraisers.

Since the "debate" on Wednesday, ABC has been in defense mode, considering the overwhelming criticism they have received. The Huffington post has done analysis of the four one-on-one debates between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and the results are very revealing.

Folks, Obama has done it again. On the heels of that awful debate, where he clearly (unfortunately) got pummled, Obama went on to discuss the issue of the "distractions" that seem to overwhelm discussion of real policy issues. He went on to discuss the problem when the media and other campaings focus on these "gotcha" distractions, and how to deal with them. The rest is history.