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While I don't agree with Obama on this issue, it's pretty dumb to compare the two. Anyone can just stand at the outset or a nation or whatever and say all these idealistic things, without ever having to really own up to the consequences.
I can't remember the exact wording, but I saw this comedian Jim Norton's bit on the scanning machines at airports, and the Ben Franklin quote, which was that Ben Franklin never had to worry about a being on a plane and some "savage" lighting his underwear on fire and blowing the plane up.
Oh, and he had slaves. So even he couldn't live up to his own, logical idealism when he was alive. So you can't say he would now, in the face of any and all circumstances...
They both have polarizing views of security and privacy. How would you compare the two men?
...Frankly I don't think Obama has reached the level of Franklin in terms of political wisdom.
...However the situation between today and hundreds of years ago is different, or is it?
There is absolutely no comparing Benjamin Franklin to Barak Obama, and to attempt to draw some comparison is ridiculous at best.
Benjamin Franklin, like his contemporaries, was a thinker, and a profound one at that. Barack Obama is anything but!
In terms of political wisdom, Obama has none, except that which best serves his own narcissism.
Franklin was a man who loved freedom and feared government. Obama loves government and seeks to diminish freedom. He sees the freedom of the people as a stumbling block to his transformational agenda.
They both have polarizing views of security and privacy. How would you compare the two men?
...Frankly I don't think Obama has reached the level of Franklin in terms of political wisdom.
...However the situation between today and hundreds of years ago is different, or is it?
Ben Franklin lived 200 years ago. Franklin was an intellectual. He would use his critical thinking skills to determine that the risks today were unimaginable 200 years and would evolve on his thinking about security and privacy.
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This is novel.
