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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.

HRC On Gender Card

By Marc Ambinder
Nov 15 2007, 9:08 PM ET Comment

"People are not attacking me because I'm a woman. They're attacking me because I'm ahead."

Repeats the kitchen line.

"This is really one of the kind of issues that we can laugh about. Several of us would never have had the chance to run for president if it hadn't been for the progress in America over my lifetime..."

Asked about "boys club" line -- HRC puts it in a larger context.

"To be able to aim towards the hardest, highest glass ceiling...is humbling. As I travel around the country, fathers drive hours to bring their daughters to my events...and so many women in their nineties wait hours to shake my hand.."

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