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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.
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Obama The Manager

By Marc Ambinder

Jul 16 2008, 1:14 PM ET Comment

Reader EP:

From your blog today:

"Obama, who never managed so much as a newsstand, has turned out to be a fairly remarkable leader of a what's becoming a billion dollar enterprise."

This has become a common understanding of Obama's history--Romney uses it whenever he can--but I think it's just fundamentally inaccurate. Obama has much more executive managerial experience than people appreciate. He was the president of the law review. He led the 92 GOTV drive that Lizza makes much of in his new piece. He ran his state senate campaigns and his state senate office, before running his 04 Senate campaign as well as his Senate office. There's a rich diversity of experience there at the top of the helm that is worth exploring and that at the very least neatly rebuts this common charge.


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