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To: KLP who wrote (50312)	6/14/2004 4:00:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793931

I found Carter's preachiness a bit queer. At that time it was unheard of, at least in my part of the country, for politicians to talk that way so I did this huge doubletake. It didn't bother me particularly, more quaint than anything once I got used to it. It was more spiritually introspective than preachy to my ear. Whatever it was, it seemed peripheral to his job as president so it wasn't particularly relevant. No different than if he had a penchant for fly fishing and babbled about that all the time. I never got a sense of preachiness from Clinton. He had a lot of pictures taken of him going to church. Don't know how much of that was a black thing and how much was a religious thing. He used the rhetoric of a Baptist minister sometimes but he was utterly secular when he had his policy wonk hat on. The religious thing looked like the culture and style of the southern politician to me. Reagan seemed quite secular to me as he went about his presidential business. He tipped his had a lot to the religious conservatives but they seemed to be as just another political interest group he was humoring, not his brethren. Bush is different, IMO. He seems to operate out of his religion, see the world through his religion. Sometimes I get the impression that his job is pope rather than president the way he mixes his religious beliefs into his decisions. He's the only one that ever made my neck hair stand up. Carter may have been the most annoying but only Bush is threatening, IMO.