So great is the desperation that is now overcoming the campaign of Hillary Clinton, that she and her husband are now apparently directly arguing to superdelegates that Barack Obama cannot win against McCain in the fall:

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., cannot win a general election against presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Clinton and Governer Bill Richardson, D-N.M., prior to the Governor's endorsement of Obama say she told him flatly, "He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win."

Richardson, who served in President Clinton's cabinet, disagreed.

I think this is just another tactic by the Clintons that is likely to offend rank and file Democrats, as well as superdelegates, and backfire against Hill and Bill.