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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.
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Romney Brackets The President

By Marc Ambinder

Oct 17 2007, 11:34 AM ET Comment

The news out of the president's presser today will probably be his invocation of the specter of World War III** to refer to the threat of a nuclear of Iran.

In an e-mailed press release that hit inboxes about three minutes after Bush finished speaking, Mitt Romney's campaign wants YOU to know that the Romney Agenda inclides the fight against "radical jihad" anywhere and everywhere.

STRATEGY FOR A STRONGER AMERICA:
DEFEATING THE JIHADIST THREAT

"There is a war being waged by the terrorists. And as long as we have a Republican president, we're going to have a war on terrorists." – Governor Romney (Jason Spencer, "Yankee Governor With Southern Values' Backs Military And Attacks 'HillaryCare'," The Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 7/20/07)


** Evidently, Bush doesn't fully accept Norman Podhoretz's arguments.

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