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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.

Messiah Watch Returns!

By Marc Ambinder
Jul 23 2008, 11:01 AM ET Comment

It's been a while, but...

Re: Obama's German-language flier.

The visuals are definitely not conventional American printcraft; when was the last time you saw an American politician be portrayed from such an unusual angle? And the cartoonishly stylized photograph? The subject is other-wordly. (A side note: the Obama logo isn't widely known outside the U.S., which explains why Obama's name is relatively more prominent.)

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