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Sampling Ben Franklin: Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, the host city of the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Whatever Ben Franklin might think about seeing names like Ben Affleck and Al Franken at the Beantown convention this week, he'd probably take notice of Sean Combs.

P. Diddy's "Citizen Change" campaign is using the slogan "Vote or Die!" to motivate the youth of the United States to vote in the upcoming presidential elections.
"We have the power to make things cool, hot and sexy- from the clothes we wear to the cars we drive to the bling we buy, " Diddy declared during his voter registration at NYU's Kimmel Center. "Now we're going to make voting cool. We are the true leaders of today."
Ben Franklin and P. Diddy would probably have a lot to talk about, if they could meetup at a political convention.
In the last decade of his life, Benjamin Franklin served as a member of the Constitutional Convention and was elected president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Historians have called him the quintessential American because of his creative pragmatism, scientific innovation, and democratic spirit.
And, back in the day, Ben Franklin came up with a similar slogan to encourage union of the colonies.
Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette provided information about politics to the people. Ben Franklin used political cartoons to illustrate news stories and to heighten reader appeal. The May 9, 1754 issue included Join, or Die, which is widely considered the first American political cartoon.
Of course, the idea of suing P. Diddy for copyright infringement for sampling his slogan might not occur to Ben Franklin; copyright laws weren't enacted in America until 1790. Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790.
Posted by abnu on Saturday, July 31, 2004 @ 12:56 AM [ + ]

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