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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.

On The National Debt...

By Marc Ambinder
Dec 12 2007, 2:00 PM ET Comment

30 seconds answers....Is the debt a threat to our national security? "I wouldn't call it a threat to our national security..." Giuliani talks specifics...numbers and facts...seems well-prepared for this question..... Hunter says "yes," and brings up $800 trade deficit...Paul: "Yes." -- "We can't support the foreign policy that we needed."....Tancredo says yes...Thompson gives some talking points...."it affects our national security for one reason: it's squeezing military spending." Thompson wants more guns, less butter (and by butter he means creamy Social Security..." Romney: "This is indeed a time of extraordinary challenges in Washington...but this is not a time for us to wring our hands and think that the future is bleak, when, in fact, the future is bright...".... Romney the cockeyed optimist....Huckabee: "Yes" Who feeds us, who fuels us, who helps us to fight...of course our national security is at risk." McCain: "Yes," and talks about oil and energy independence."

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