re: #59 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Koch is using it completely out of context and distorting its meaning.

So two important things to note:

1. Jefferson was talking about term limits.
2. Jefferson was wrong, we did institute presidential term limits.

So Koch is quoting Jefferson out of context, and it’s a time when Jefferson was wrong. And counting on ignorance to pass this by people.

To be fair, he’s probably ignorant about it too, he probably doesn’t actually have any real knowledge or respect for Jefferson, but just uses him as a quote-mine.

Well, we didn’t institute Presidential term limits for another 150+ years. We just benefited from Washington establishing a 2-term tradition that held up for that period.