Opinion: Grand Prezmaster A-Linc: Grammy Dreams

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Oh sure, he was probably the best president we ever had and today’s his birthday and all -- but where is Abe Lincoln’s Grammy?

Hillary Rodham Clinton won a Grammy in 1997 for the audio book of ``It Takes a Village.’’ Her husband got two, in 2004 and 2005 -- which is one Grammy more than Fleetwood Mac, whose ‘’Don’t Stop’’ [Thinking About Tomorrow] was Clinton’s 1992 campaign theme song. And now Jimmy Carter has just won his own Grammy for the audio-book version of his bestselling book, ``Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis.’’

Al Gore’s documentary is up for an Oscar, and next year, don’t be surprised if Barack Obama’s audio book of ``The Audacity of Hope’’ gets its own Grammy buzz, just in time for the New Hampshire primary.

Is some jazzy new arrangement of ‘’Hail to the Chief’’ in the works out there?

If Lincoln had been Grammy-eligible, his smash spoken-word hit ‘’The Gettysburg Address’’ would surely have won out over Walt Whitman’s ``Leaves of Grass’.’

But what would he have put on the B-side?

1861 Lincoln image courtesy of www.civics-online.org