<p><a id="ci_1" href="../../../view/a-house-divided" title="Just how nasty">Just how nasty</a> are things getting between the Clinton and Obama campaigns?<br />

The Obama camp has said Clinton’s <a id="my.p" href="../../../view/theres-a-phone-and" title="ringing phone ad">ringing phone ad</a> is like something from Karl Rove’s playbook.<br /><br />

Now the Clinton camp says the latest volley from the Obama campaign — pressing for Clinton to release her tax returns — is like something Whitewater investigator Ken Starr would pull.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">As Howard Wolfson, Clinton’s communications director, put it to reporters on a conference call: &quot;I for one do not belive that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president.&quot;</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Ouch. How long ’til this ends?</p>