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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.

The 20th Democratic Debate

By Marc Ambinder
Feb 26 2008, 9:03 PM ET Comment

Obama: "It has to do with how we are going to achieve universal health care." Says same experts that say there's a difference say that difference is very small...

HRC: "It would be as though Franklin Roosevelt said, let's make Social Security voluntary...at the point of employment, at the point of contact, we would have people signed up...it's like when you get a 401K at your employer..."... HRC getting passionate.. there's an edge in her voice

Has HRC ever answered the mandate question? How would she enforce it?

HRC: Re: Obama's Ohio mailings, "It’s almost as though the health insurance companies and the Republicans wrote it."

Haven't we heard this same debate about 14 times?

Obama: "Sen. Clinton has...constantly sent out negative attacks on us...e-mail, robocalls, fliers, television ads...and we haven't whined about it...because I understand that's the nature of these campaigns."

Obama: "I have endured repeated negative mailings..."

HRC: Asked about the Drudge picture... "I certainly know nothing about it.."

HRC: starts on health care.... calls for an "accurate" debate that's "based in facts." "My plan will cover everyone and it is affordable. ... Sen. Obama's plan does not cover everyone."

HRC: "This is a contest campaign. I have a great deal of respect for Sen. Obama, but we have differences."

Yay -- a Clinton video montage!

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