[RicocheT]

” Although there are 16,000 or so books about Lincoln, and a famous movie with Henry Fonda as the young Lincoln, there's enough freshness in this late portrait to animate anyone eligible to watch a movie with the PG-13 rating.”

What makes the tale so “fresh” is that the author of the book the movie is based on made up the whole story. Lincoln and Grant were busy running the war during those months. Republican abolitionists in Congress pushed through the 13th Amendment after his death as part of the reconstruction penalties on the defeated South.

[BenLurkin]

If there was no room to compromise over slavery before the war... there was still no Constitutional justification for waging brutal war against the States which chose to leave the Union.

[atc23]

The most boring and stupid film I’ve seen in ages. Lincolns politicization of slavery as a means to justify the killing of 750,000 Americans was the most despicable act in history. By today’s population equivalent, 750,000 equals 7 million.

And we think Obama is impeachable.

[Malesherbes]

There was no “White House telegraph office.” The telegraph office was in Edwin Stanton’s nearby War Department, and Lincoln would walk over there to get the news.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Many reviewers have written about how it's "relevant" today, and that Barack Obama could learn from Lincoln's cunning to keep from falling off the fiscal cliff.

They all miss the way it really is..

Abe will explain from "the other side."

You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Obama is a biological-ideological issue of the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats; to wit, the New Normal

[Resolute Conservative]

No thanks. No Hollyweird re-write of history for me or my kids. We’ll get all our history from the writings of the times.

I don’t see overt or moderately suggestive political movies (ex I will not see Avatar)

[raccoonradio]

Saw the other day, bargain matinee...many older people there. Heard one woman say to another on my way out, “We could use a real President now, someone like Lincoln”

[WackySam]

The more I learn about Lincoln, the more I despise him.

[newfreep]

Many reviewers have written about how it's "relevant" today, and that Barack Obama could learn from Lincoln's cunning to keep from falling off the fiscal cliff.

As a radical marxist, Ozero WANTS to go over the cliff and begin final phase to destroy the Constitution and impose communism on a "transformed" America.

Does anyone in the GOP leadership realize the ongoing communist coup? (/rhetorical)