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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.

Obama Web Video Slams Clinton On War

By Marc Ambinder
Mar 17 2008, 3:01 PM ET Comment

Just like to use an active verb like "slam" because it gets the Memeorandum bots' attention. And in this economic environment, every bit of traffic helps.



HRC today: "What matters is what we've actually done.."

Cut to:

HRC before the war vote in 2002: "This is a very difficult vote... any vote that might lead to war should be hard... but I cast this with conviction... perhaps my decision is influenced by my eight years of experience on the other hand of Pennsylvania Avenue."

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