Obama’s Robert Gibbs faces Washington press corps at Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday

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Among the potential questions for Obama communications chief Robert Gibbs when he faces a room full of Washington reporters at breakfast Thursday morning: The story in the Thursday New York Times LINK about how how access to presumptive nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is controlled and how the campaign had to apologize for removing two Muslim women from a backdrop of people behind Obama who would have shown up in a TV shot. LINK

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