Ho Chi Minh did share some of Jefferson’s sentiments and words.
For example, “Nothing is so precious as liberty and independence” was the motto of his party. The preamble of his party’s Proclamation of Independence: “’All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness’. This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the Earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and to be free. Those are undeniable truths.”
Unfortunately, he did not understand that these principles are inherently incompatible with Marxism. It is perhaps even more unfortunate
Ho was not the Jefferson of Viet Nam, but it is ignorant to argue that he was not impressed and influenced by Jefferson’s thinking. And it is stupid to criticize Obama for this when there are so many other serious scandals.
Well, to be fair, even Jefferson may not have understood his own statements, considering he shamefully acted as a cheerleader for the September Massacres and the excesses of the French Revolution up to and at times even including the Reign of Terror, something even his fellow founding fathers were aghast at by that time.
But yeah, Ho Chi Minh would not have qualified as an American Minutemen. Can’t say for certainty on whether he’d qualify as a Jeffersonian, mostly because of the fact that Thomas Jefferson, alongside Tom Paine, acted as cheerleaders for the Jacobins and the other French Revolutionaries even when their crimes became very public and obvious to anyone with any sense of rationality. But certainly not American. The founding fathers would have been disgusted with Minh.