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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.

Lanny Davis Jabs Obama On Wright (Updated)

By Marc Ambinder
Mar 19 2008, 4:44 PM ET Comment

One very prominent Clinton campaign surrogate either didn't get the message (unlikely), has decided to freelance, or represents the tip of the spear in terms of a new Clinton campaign front.

Lanny Davis, in a HuffingtonPost column today,, asks:

These two questions are:

1. If a white minister preached sermons to his congregation and had used the "N" word and used rhetoric and words similar to members of the KKK, would you support a Democratic presidential candidate who decided to continue to be a member of that congregation?

2. Would you support that candidate if, after knowing of or hearing those sermons, he or she still appointed that minister to serve on his or her "Religious Advisory Committee" of his or her presidential campaign?


No offense to Arianna... the Huffington Post is not the main news source for Pennsylvania voters. Superdelegates and Obama donors... yes. Was this an authorized hit?

Update: "Nope," says Clinton campaign communications director Howard Wolfson.

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