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To: Neocon who wrote (228820)	2/20/2002 9:10:53 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Actually, I had just finished an article which reported that even Carville thinks the people who said Clinton was "great" in that ABC poll were essentially too ignorant to know who Lincoln was. Did top Democratic Party strategist James Carville really mean to suggest Tuesday morning that African-Americans rated Bill Clinton over Abraham Lincoln as America's best president ever because they "don't know who Abraham Lincoln was"? The former top Clinton aide came perilously close to that assessment - even if only inadvertently - when asked by radioman Don Imus about yesterday's ABC News Presidents Day poll where whites rated Lincoln No. 1 while blacks picked Clinton. IMUS: Now here's an interesting point, James. Lincoln was first among whites. But Bill Clinton was chosen as the greatest president ever overwhelmingly by blacks. And - so on one hand you have Lincoln, who freed the slaves. On the other hand you have Bill Clinton, who jumped ugly with poor old Sistah Soljah and was praying there in the White House with Jesse Jackson. How do you explain that? CARVILLE: Well, I think ... first of all, these polls are gonna more reflect who a recent president is. I mean probably, if you stop and think of all the people in America, probably half of them don't know who Abraham Lincoln was. I mean - ah - or somebody in the past. So obviously, the more recent you are, the better you're gonna score on these things. newsmax.com