Just received an email from Barack Obama himself:

As you know, we've won 27 of 41 contests and have maintained our commanding lead among pledged delegates.

But today I want to share another staggering number: supporters like you donated more than $55 million to this campaign in the month of February.

That's a humbling achievement, and I am very grateful for your support.

No campaign has ever raised this much in a single month in the history of presidential primaries. But more important than the total is how we did it -- more than 90% of donations were $100 or less, and more than 385,000 new donors in February pushed us past our goal of more than 1,000,000 people owning a piece of this campaign.

$55 million is absolutely staggering. What's even more amazing is that the campaign registered nearly 400,000 new donors just during February alone! Obama now has over 1 million donors most of whom he can go back to time and again because they have not yet donated the maximum amount.

It's my sincere hope that Obama uses this money to bury the Clinton campaign with a wave of negative advertising attacking her integrity and trustworthiness. This is an issue on which the Clintons have always been especially vulnerable and one that Obama has steered clear of up until now. Now that the campaign has entered a down and dirty phase there's no reason to hold back anymore. It shouldn't take more than a few weeks of bombardment before the electorate is reminded of the many scandals that plagued the Clinton administration and decides that they want to go forward instead of retreating into the past.

Today, the Obama campaign continued to press Clinton to release her tax returns as he has done. Clinton campaign spokeshole Howard Wolfson responded with his usual deception as reported by Ben Smith:

"Over 20 years of the Clintons' tax returns are part of the public record," he said, referring to their White House years and also to her more recent Senate disclosure forms. "Everyone knows we have made clear that all of the post-White House tax returns will be put out by the campaign on or about tax time -- April 15,"

Again, Wolfson employs the baffling evasion that Hillary has to wait until April 15 before she can sit in front of a xerox machine for five minutes and make a copy of her 2006 (and earlier) tax returns. This excuse makes no sense whatsoever and increases the suspicion that the Clintons have something to hide.

The thin-skinned Wolfson further lamented Obama's new strategy of going on the offensive:

"I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president."

Ken Starr??? Obama is the new Ken Starr??? Now that's rich!

Maybe if you took a picture of Ken Starr and applied some filters to darken the image and then stretched the picture horizontally to give Starr a big fat Negro nose it might look a little like Obama.

Wouldn't that be a great idea for a Clinton campaign ad? Show a picture of Obama and have it morph into Ken Starr! I'm sure that'll send the voters flocking to Hillary.

This is really starting to get fun!