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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.

McCain Nudges Obama On North Korea

By Marc Ambinder
May 26 2009, 6:34 PM ET Comment

If not for Sonia Sotomayor, the political elite would be debating North Korea.  Here, in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, Sen. John McCain weighs in:

What has North Korea done since Obama came to office? And we were going to have a new dialogue with them. God Almighty! You know? Two journalists are now in prison. They announced they're reprocessing, proceeding with the fissile material. They were threatening or did shut down that town that the South Koreans funded for them. I mean, I think reality's going to hit the Obama Administration.

Fighting old battles, yes.... but a preview of what Obama will hear from Republicans and provocative, none the less. Note that the country had not conducted its nuclear test when McCain spoke.

 Speaking of interviews and Jeffrey Goldberg.... Fareed Zakaria, what gives?... 


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