Clinton won't deny pushing the Wright story. She won't even answer the question.

Shameless.

Last night, I wrote a post about Lanny Davis, a pretty despicable top surrogate for the Clinton campaign pushing the Rev. Wright story. Davis isn't a free agent. He's on Team Clinton. At around the same time I was publishing that post, an article appeared on the New York Times website confirming what the Clinton campaign operatives were doing to use Rev. Wright to their political advantage:

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said they had spent recent days making the case to wavering superdelegates that Mr. Obama’s association with Mr. Wright would doom their party in the general election.

That argument could be Mrs. Clinton’s last hope for winning this contest.

That article confirms the desperation of the Clinton campaign -- and their desperate tactics. Today, we learn from ABC News that the candidate herself not only wouldn't deny what the campaign was doing, in somewhat typical fashion, Clinton wouldn't even answer the question:

However at a Thursday press availability in Terra Haute, Indiana after a report surfaced that the Clinton campaign was pushing the Wright story to superdelegates arguing that the relationship hurt Obama's electibility -– Clinton refused to deny that her campaign was pushing the story.

When asked, Clinton ignored the Wright portion of the question and said “well my campaign has been making the case that I am the most electable that I have said that for a year or more that I am the person best able to make the challenges that our country faces as commander in chief.”

When Clinton was then asked specifically if her campaign was pushing the Wright story –- she shrugged and took the next question, ignoring the reporter.

Classy. Very classy. Makes you proud, doesn't it? And, seriously, why does Hillary want to go there? Seriously? Why would someone with as many skeletons in her closet want this campaign to go to the ugliest places? Desperation is the only possible answer.

Given this ugliness, Clinton also loses the ability to feign any kind of moral outrage over Florida and Michigan.