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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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False Hope "Bugs The Heck" Out Of Obama

By Marc Ambinder

Jan 6 2008, 2:13 PM ET Comment

An interesting addition to Sen. Barack Obama's stump speech, based on a line from Hillary Clinton during last night's debate.

“In the face of such cynicism, in the course of this campaign, I was derided… last night one of my opponents said that we should stop giving people false hope, that we need a reality check. What kind of an agenda is that, false hope?"

"The notion of false hopes bugs the heck out of me, if we have a sense of urgency and political will we can get things done."

BTW: Bill Bradley will endorse him tomorrow.

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