Do you think Benjamin Franklin would have made a good president?

Answer 1

Splendid - - - one of my time travel fantacies involves sending a geriatrics guru back to aid Franklin in his declining years in the hope of squeezing another decade or two out of him. Franklin was a natural politician, a shrewd thinker, and most of all despite catty gossip & nasty quips, once he learned to like someone he could be a true friend - -- this is refernece to his prickly relationshuip with John Adams....

One imagines that if Franklin has been in good health in 1787 despite being in his eighties, that Washington would have gladly served under Franklin as Vice Preisdent. But alas even Franklin feared the Reaper from 1785 onward, aware his time was drawing to an end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
""""''At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when the convention seemed to head for disaster due to heated debate, the elderly Franklin displayed his conviction of a deity that was intimately involved in human affairs by requesting that each day's session begin with prayers. Franklin recalled the days of the Revolutionary War, when the American leaders assembled in prayer daily, seeking "divine guidance" from the "Father of lights." He then rhetorically asked, "And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?"

Peace--------------------

Answer 2

Benjamin Franklin would have made a fine president. If anything he would have been overqualified.
I'm pretty sure Benjamin Franklin is SPINNING in his grave in response to the current state of the Union.

Answer 3

i studied his history and his contribution in college specially in literay contributions i think he was so great man he ahd given lot to America he aspritual leader he made great part of the actual america

Answer 4

Not by modern standards. He made far too much sense.

Answer 5

Yes, but he was too old .