Opinion: Inside the looming Clinton-Obama showdown

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We don’t want to give away too much ahead of time.

But interested followers of the tightening Democratic race for the presidential nomination, especially the growing tensions between the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama camps, will want to check back here later this evening.

The Times’ grizzled political veteran, Mark Z. Barabak, who doesn’t look a day over 80, has tapped into his nationwide sources of many years to produce a blockbuster story about the deteriorating situation. For the first time he has members of the camps, many of them once devoted followers and aides to Bill Clinton, on the record discussing the ex-president’s mounting role as political attack dog for his wife’s struggling campaign and whether this behavior is appropriate for a position traditionally seen and fulfilled as elder statesman.

Unless you’re in the Clinton camp, you won’t want to miss this one here on this website now and in Friday’s print editions.

-- Andrew Malcolm