Obama's Inaugural Day : Tom Hanks paying tribute to Abraham Lincoln

[ThaSchwab]

The words themselves were Abe Lincoln's. They were compiled by the composer of this music, Aaron Copland.

[cantbackdown123]

It says it as a fun fact on nick.com kca votes click on plays a cartoon in a movie then click Tom hanks toy story 3 then you will scroll down and find it as a fun fact

[nevermindthebanana]

crap video.

[ZekeZero010]

OMG i didnt notice tom hanks was a relative to abraham lincoln

[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

Obama the first half-caste biracial mixed-race president not black

[Marspyramids]

what a fucking terrible video....

[blumenthol]

tom hanks fits nicely into liberal hollywood's pockets

[1994DavidLotro]

tom hanks is related to abraham lincoln

[albertoql]

The typing sounds like morse code to me, any ideas if it is????

[waddleduckie1]

Tom Hanks, Abe Lincoln's third cousin! But four times removed.

[FrogCoffee12]

You know what everyone's thinking with the surroundings here..

"FORREST!"

"JENNYYY!"

lmao, Tom Hanks is great.

[aegina9]

tom hanks is actually in lincoln's lineage from his mom's side

[rogerrodd]

Gee if I go to the next inauguration and quote a JFK speech verbatim with snot running from my nose, will everybody keep talking about how brilliant I am?

[mixindave1]

tom hanks should be president

[MrHydez]

yeah sure then the EUA gov would be hollywood!

mmuuaaaahha

[MrHydez]

hasta la vista baby!

[socarulz]

LIEK OMFG i thought captain miller was dead!!!!11111

[socarulz]

LIEK OMFG

[Fearlessechoes73]

i cant even finish this video because of the obnoxious typing in the background

[syouxieblue]

I would have ran on the lake screaming Forest!!!

[JeeRant]

You probably would have died of hypothermia.

[NouvelleOrdre]

My goodness.I sure hope Obama isnt like Lincoln!

1) we had a devasting civil war under Lincoln

2) Lincoln suspended habeus corpus

3) Lincoln's Emancipation Proclaimation only freed slaves in southern states, not in other states

4) Lincoln famously thought blacks were unequal to whites and said so

and Lincoln's Presidency ended tragically.

Let us "hope" that Obama is successful, unlike Lincoln. The country is in bad shape to have the devastation, bitterness, and divisiveness of Lincoln also

[ecurtisd]

Wow...the complete disregard of true research saddens me. Read a lil bit before you squeeze into a big boy suit, ok? Lincoln openly thought blacks were unequal. Friggin' tard, man. How was Lincoln unsuccessful? If Lincoln was unsuccessful than I suppose Nero was successful, huh?

[NouvelleOrdre]

name 1 factually inaccurate statement I made.

1) there was a civil war, it was awful bloody

2) he did suspend habeus corpus

3) his executive orders (EP) only applied to secessionist states not already under federal control

4)"I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races" from the Lincoln-Douglas debates (you probably never heard of them in school.)

5)Lincoln always favored the colonialization of blacks (send em back to Africa).

]\\go read

[ecurtisd]

There was a civil war. Very good. Because the confederacy was taking this slavery thing a lil too far and the union's Commander in Chief (Lincoln) decided to act. Lincoln was assassinated for his role in freeing the slaves. I think you're just pickin gnat shit outta pepper. Honestly. Lincoln was a GREAT president. Especially taking into account what he had to work with.

[ecurtisd]

And I actually did hear of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in Social Sciences. I also know how easy it is to take one (not complete I might add) excerpt from something and tell a novel. Fictional novel.

[ecurtisd]

And he favored the colonialization (is that even a word) of the blacks because he was ashamed of his own white people. He felt it was unsafe and inappropriate for them to live in a land that he felt would never accept them as humans. All this, by the way is leading up to the Union army's role in the civil war. So in summary none of your statements were factually inaccurate, just very vague and misleading.

[NouvelleOrdre]

actually famous historians, many of whom were black like Bennett, say that the veneration of Lincoln is just to gloss over racism in America. Obama's hero, Malcolm X, said, "take down those pictures" of Lincoln. The "great emancipator" myth was, basically, to make white folks feel good and to justify the economic exploitation of:

the south, the blacks (who now were sharecroppers not slaves), the criminals (now leased out to work instead of slaves), and the bankers (who made money of the war.)

[ecurtisd]

Once again...pickin' gnat shit. You're basing your opinion on others' opinions? "Famous historians this, that. What about what Lincoln ACTUALLY did? Did you cross reference these "Famous, Black Historians" to "Famous, Black Historians with a grudge"? This is silly. I bet you thought Kennedy was a bad C.I.C. too, huh? Yes I know that most of our hardships today all point to JFK, but he was cut short. His admin didn't get to see it thru. Malcolm X? Really? I'm not even gonna touch that one.

[NouvelleOrdre]

Well, now that you mention it, Kennedy did escalate/start the Vietnam War (Democrat Johnson really got her going though), the ill-fated Bay-of-Pigs (whats worse listen to the CIA war-making machine or abandon people involved once its started and you change your mind), and, of course, nearly getting us all (i.e., the world) killed with his trying-to-be-tough policy over Cuban Missle Crisis (didn't Kennedy know, like Obama, that Che, Fidel, and commies were our friends and heroes?)

[ecurtisd]

Wow. Now your statements ARE factually inaccurate. Our advisers were in and planning the conflict within Vietnam as early as '46. Kennedy actually said 'It's their war. They're the ones who are going to have to win or lose it. Bay of Pigs was planned by the CIA (an organization that JFK wasn't on the best of terms with) It was such a disaster because when JFK found out he pulled air support. So he got blamed. And how is he to blame for having a spine when we're threatened from 90 miles away...?

[neothomist1275]

"Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had always a sacrificial, self-murdering note in their voices. American Democracy was a form of self-murder, always. Or of murdering somebody else. . . " -- DH Lawrence

[NouvelleOrdre]

finally someone with some semblence of history. Of course, the beauty of America is that due to the self-murder(s)- the country is reborn- to good or ill. And States have been, at least nominally, sequestered into the order. But regardless, basically, things were finished and reborn (freedom to move, reestablish, etc). Europe still fights political battles from centuries ago (and and, when possible, really does so to devastinging results....)

[Ineffable112]

Forest GuMp!!

[12eject]

What this is the only video on the internet of Tom Hanks tribute to Lincoln

[12eject]

the guy who posted this whats with the typing noise, annoying

[triumphelf]

Now Finally !All The Troop's can come Home,like Obama Promised,when He asked for your Vote!!!

[KeanuReeeves]

kewl we elected a black guy, too bad he doesnt have any character....i feel all warm and fuzzy about the change, they are about to inaugurate the baby killing antichrist ! i need a shit!

[budthesmoke85]

Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln.

Hanks is cool!

[danschaoticmind]

The only issue I have with this is that I can tell you just put a video camera to a tv and recorded it that way. If you have an interest in getting video onto the internet they do have products which allow you to take analog tape and convert it to digital data and the likes.

That is ONLY if YOU want to.

Otherwise thanks for putting this up. I saw om speak yesterday but felt annoyed I forgot my camera

[Naughtyjug]

What an extraordinary spectacle, replete with live Hollywood orchestral soundtrack and an A-list feature-film actor. It's like the biggest group hug in history. I'm not sure if it's real or not; real life is always stranger than fiction but this sets new standards in national catharthis.

[eastsackevster]

Forreessst JENNY! FORRRREESSST JENNNYYYY!

you know your thinking this watching the suroundings heh

[Hockeymomfkcer]

It was the hapiest moment of mah lyfe.

[kcanuck7]

wtf is that noise in the background?

[utubefavorsdems]

The former presidents shifting in their graves.

Obama will fail America in 2009.

[harris211279]

u little dick mother fucker get a life u cunt

[utubefavorsdems]

Obama doesn't care about you fuckers in the UK!He controls even the ones that never see dentists. Wow!

[danschaoticmind]

no u.

l-2 satire