Ben Franklin & Trump: Bringing Business Smarts & Pride in Workmanship to Government

5/8/2016 | Pocono Pundit

[poconopundit]

Hope you enjoy reading about the parallels in the lives of two great businessman patriots.

[Salvation]

Very interesting article. Thank you for posting it.

[miss marmelstein]

And for people who haven’t voted in a primary yet, just remember, it is not over! Who knows what the Republicans are plotting? We need to get him to 1237! New Jerseyeans, I mean you!!!

[Vision Thing]

Both Franklin and Trump are quintessential Americans. However, Trump will pass up Franklin once he becomes president. And if Trump restores the nation, he will end up on the $1,000 bill while Franklin remains on those Benjamin $100 bills.

[HarleyLady27]

Fabulous article!!!

They are almost alike in so many ways...

Thank you!!!

People don't forget to vote:

California; Oregon; Washington; Montana; South Dakota; New Mexico; New Jersey; West Virginia...

We need Trump to be way over the 1237 delegate count so they can't take this away from him our us...

[ghosthost]

"[T]he Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably [sic] very small… . I could wish their Numbers were increased…. But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind. [W]hy increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America?" - Benjamin Franklin

[hawaiianninja]

Good read. Well done! :)

[Roos_Girl]

Thanks, I needed the laugh.

[poconopundit]

Aloha and thanks,

I lived for a couple years in Kailua when I was served at the Kaneohe Marine base. Love that liquid sunshine :-)

[V K Lee]

Thanks for the ping PP. True, at first glance the two have a good many similarities. And if Ben rather than George Washington had been elected first president what would now be different in the way our country is seen (if anything).

Looks like another storm coming thru. Signing off for now.

[bigbob]

The Virtue of Frugality is worth mentioning, since the anti-Trump crowd loved to call him a “cheapskate” when it came to buying TV ads, etc but in fact we now see Trump has reinvented how the “ground game” is played, relying on social media and free news coverage by being the thought-leader who dominated every news cycle. To borrow Linda Grahams horrible example, if they shot Ted Cruz on the Senate floor...the news channels would be talking about Trump calling some poor protestor a naughty name.

[Fai Mao]

Some one here, I forgot who, compared Trump to the Biblical judge Sampson.

They both have notable hair
Neither drink alcohol
Both chased foreign women
Neither respond well to insults
Both are patriots who put their nation first
Both are men of direct action
Both are somewhat crude
Both wanted to get rid of Philistine invaders

[Democrat_media]

Trump is William Wallace of Braveheart and Captain America all rolled into one!

Trump is the only one who can pull us back from the edge of falling into the dark abyss!

[be-baw]

Terrific job. A tad sycophantic perhaps, but otherwise near perfect. Thanks for sharing.

[poconopundit]

It's an interesting comparison. And your background in Asia is even more interesting. 

Owning to my Navy service in late 1970s and early 1980s, I traveled around Asia, saw Hong Kong in that previous era and lived in Japan where I met my wife.  Still stay connected to Japan through NHK satellite.  My daughter studied in Taiwan and Beijing and learned to speak Mandarin fairly well.

I always found Alan Watts to have a compelling view of philosophy and religion in Asia.  I'm sure if Watts was alive today he would laugh hilariously at Trump's schooling of the politically correct.

[poconopundit]

Thanks very much.  Writing these and doing the graphics is a fun diversion for me.  As long as I hear a few people liked it, it was worth it.

I suppose the price of perfection is time.  Given enough time, any story can be trimmed of the non-essential and poor word choice can be substituted with something better.

But I notice that when I near finishing one of these FR vanities, I don't have the patience to edit it rigorously so I end up posting some foolish errors.  Too bad, you can't correct the errors on FR.  Then again, if you could, maybe I could never finish it :-)

[SamAdams76]

Good article. I learned a new word today. Venery. Thanks Ben Franklin!

Trump's 5th "Art of the Deal" Principle explains a lot.

[Be Careful]

Thanks for the blast.....great info and very inspiring

[Navy Patriot]

Very interesting comparison of rough and tumble patriots.

Two California Republican primary votes for Trump in June, pedal to the metal until he's got the nomination.