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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.

This YouTube Is Circulating In Republican Circles

By Marc Ambinder
May 8 2008, 10:04 AM ET Comment

.... which makes it worthy of a post. You can bet that a big McCain talking point in the fall will be almost exactly as phrased below by Juan Williams. Obamaniacs will dismiss it out of hand, but the substance is not dismissable out of hand.



** The usual caveat: just because the argument isn't dismissable doesn't mean that it's valid; it does mean that Obama supporters can't expect it to be dismissed without a sustained argument. What is is not what ought to be, or what's thought to be. I feel compelled to include this caveat because so many readers seem to be confused whenever they're presented with an argument against Obama that isn't automatically and immediately rebutted or dismissed out of hand. Most American voters are not Obamaniacs. Yet.

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