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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.

Positioning, Hillary and Iran

By Marc Ambinder
Sep 26 2007, 9:17 PM ET Comment

Gravel's next to Clinton and is swinging his arms at her..making her the focus of his criticism of the Senate... "fantasy land..." Gravel is "ashamed of you, Hillary" for voting for Lieberman-Kyl, which would designate the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization.

Clinton responds by... laughing! It works! The crowd murmurs. She defends her vote. It's not about war, it's about sanctions.

But -- isn't that what she's said about her thoughts about the 2003 Iran vote?

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