The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln

This short is a comical biography about Abraham Lincoln done in a Ken Burns' Style. The two narrators are fighting with each other throughout the faux documentary. Enjoy everyone!

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[eayrs]

I don't think they are disrespecting Lincoln, just making a silly video where the narrators interupt with their bickering. There are actually some clever allusions sprinkled in there too.

[irishgrenadier]

thank you. I made this years ago but I never understood why so many people got bent out of shape about it.

[stl49erfan]

that has to be the most vile, most disgusting, most repugnant video i've EVER seen on youtube. how dare you disrespect a man such a lincoln!!! you try to capitalize on your 15 minutes of fame by indirectly trashing our dear president?!!! no one will remember you long after you punks are all dead yet they will recount the legacy of Abraham Lincoln for a 1000 years...NEVER FORGET THAT! you are the reason why people think young people of today have no respect for tradition nor history!!!

[irishgrenadier]

get a grip. lincoln was a regular human being not a god. And from what I understand he had a great sense of humor, unlike you.

[LilaMae217]

this is horrible

[irishgrenadier]

thanks

[someone060288]

So events such as the slaughter of black troops at Fort Pillow, the horrific conditions at Andersonville, the raids by Confederate calvary into states like Indiana and Ohio that there were no Union armies in, the invasion of Kentucky, Maryland, and Pennsylvania by Confederate armies, and the continuous mistreatment and killings of black soldiers by Confederate soldiers. I do not pretend that either side was righteous. Each side has its wrongs. The myth of CSA righteousness is the real atrocity.

[someone060288]

For one thing, I never said he never did anything "under-handed", stop putting words in my mouth. Secondly, you must not study that much history, because he is nothing like Hitler, Stalin, etc, and comparing him to such people just shows your lack of historical knowledge. Thirdly, you seem to come from a very biased perspective which is not fitting in the study of history. Fourthly making the assumption that anything that ever went wrong in the war was Lincoln's fault is simply bad judgement.

[redrooster241]

Abraham Lincoln should not be revered as much as the population does. This man was one of the causes of the American Civil War as it could have easily been avoided. If slavery was that cruel and not humane, why don't you look the the Union's industrialisation- (American Industrial Revolution) which used children to work. I think slaves would be a better alternative than child labour. Slavery would have phased out anyway, as the rest of the world have already stopped the use of slavery.

[theratfarmer]

you humans havent learned a damn thing, you still think the same way you did 200 years ago. what are you doing with all that brain power?..........nothing.

[vrghiks]

No more than a satire of fun making;but one has to consider the shallowness of today's society.

[longfootbuddy]

abraham lincoln, enslaver of white and black men equally...destroyer of the sovereign

[madhavsubedi92]

Oh my god. I think this video was great but they make crapy video. anyway abraham linclon is my ideal.

[TheManWithTVEyes]

Lincoln on Slavery: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery." --- March 14, 1861

"What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races." --- 7-17-1858, fr. a speech delivered in Springfield, Ill.

"I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, or of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people." --- September 15, 1858