[Peace-discuss] More Obama

[C. G. Estabrook]

[FWIW, this is from the political gossip column in today's
U.S. News.  --CGE]

He's Better Outside the Beltway

Is Washington already bored with new Senate star Barack Obama?
In his two Sunday talk show appearances this month, the
programs finished dead last in the all important Washington
market. "He's Sunday poison," says a TV exec. But Obama's
office says national TV viewing figures show that his
appearances helped This Week and Face the Nation gain a
second-place finish to NBC's Meet the Press. And his September
11 This Week appearance turned out to have had the show's
second-best audience, next to a February interview of
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "The national numbers
speak for themselves," says Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs.
"This is proof that the so-called skinny kid with the funny
name from Chicago's South Side can go toe to toe with the
bodybuilding governor of the Golden State, and that was when
Arnold was popular!"

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/articles/051003/3whisplead_2.htm