May 2, 2008

Time 100 minus Arnold

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger received gobs of national love last year as the Republican cover boy for environmentalism. His post-partisan message in 2007 played particularly well as President Bush's popularity sunk to new lows.

That was last year.

Sure, Schwarzenegger still gets national attention, but Time Magazine left him off its 2008 Time 100 list, a compilation of what it dubs "The World's Most Influential People."

The governor previously made the cut in 2007 "for his efforts to restore Teddy Roosevelt's conservation tradition to the G.O.P." and in 2004 for being "as big a political and cultural presence as anyone."

With most of the nation's political attention on the presidential race, all three remaining major-party candidates made the list of "leaders and revolutionaries." The only other U.S. leaders are President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

The Time 100 list is here.

Posted by Kevin Yamamura on May 2, 2008 11:00 AM