Opinion of Thomas Jefferson

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

HP who knew what he needed to do to be an FF, tried to be an FF, but after roughly 1780 utterly failed to be an FF. His mixture of idealism and incompetence in the White House is exceeded only by Wilson and Dubya.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

As president, the prime example of his incompetence was the embargo, which totally failed in its foreign policy objectives, ruined our own economy because implementing it required halting our coastal domestic transport, and required a more intrusive government than anything the British tried in colonial times to enforce the Navigation Acts.

But even more incompetent was his total failure in his personal finances. He was utterly unable to manage a personal budget, and only his political connections and friends kept him out of debtors' prison. He was lucky the British burned Washington, as it gave him a chance to sell his personal library to form the core of a restored Library of Congress at an inflated price.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

As president, the prime example of his incompetence was the embargo, which totally failed in its foreign policy objectives, ruined our own economy because implementing it required halting our coastal domestic transport, and required a more intrusive government than anything the British tried in colonial times to enforce the Navigation Acts.

The irony is, of course, that Jefferson (the planter) suffered greatly from Jefferson's (the President) decision to impose the embargo.

Probably only because he had to pay higher prices for his French wine.