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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.

Who Not To Play Golf With

By Marc Ambinder
Aug 24 2009, 1:55 PM ET Comment

President Obama really must not poll his vacation plans. UBS Americas chairman Robert Wolf is very close to the President, as one of the first major NYCers to sign-up in late 2006 for the presidential campaign and a longtime Democratic donor, but when you're fighting the tag as an out-of-touch protector of Wall Street and bank bailouts, playing golf on Martha's Vineyard with a senior representative of a company that just agreed to turn over the names of 4.500 American tax-cheats is ... clearly an interesting way of putting everything into perspective.

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