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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Here It Is: Obama Takes On HIllary BUT Actually Uses The Word "Process"

By Marc Ambinder
Sep 26 2007, 9:52 PM ET Comment

Obama: "I think Hillary Clinton deserves credit for having worked on health care... the issue is not going to be who has these particular plans, it has to do with who can inspire and mobilize America people."

Obama, on why HRC failed: "Part of the reason it was lonely people that you closed the door to a lot of potential allies in that process."

It's a sharp knife, but Obama is wielding it oh-so-carefully.

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