Jefferson Gets Spanked

[JobberBud]

"My greatest dread as Chief Executive is that someday, my countrymen will turn the founders of this Nation, including myself, into idols - quoting us in their roody-poo Facebook statuses or using events we endured in YouTube videos, to make their points. As if to suggest, because we were who we were, if their opinion coincides with ours even in the slightest, then they must be indisputably in the right. I would rather play Twister with Franklin." -George Washington, 1796.

[caitsidhe]

This entire conversation is evidence of the idiocy of the "Ron-Paul-almost-a-libertarian­" nonsense. The stupidity of his "simple" solutions is matched only by the stupidity of those who think they're actual solutions!  Everyone governing themselves - fine, go to the woods, live on your own, neither buying nor producing anything else and you have every right to govern yourself. But don't have the slightest contact with anyone else, or you're a fraud.

[THeRevolting1]

@caitsidhe governing yourself defines individualism dude and individuals welcome working with a government that works with them not rule over them by force as what Hamilton has proposed so its a difference between a sheep to the slaughter and independent wolf of the pack

[theRevolutionof2012]

1:20-1:39 Contract > Constitution?

[AmericanNohbuddy]

@theRevolutionof2012

Treaties are separate. 

[Scjrd91]

If only we would follow the foreign policy of George Washington we wouldn't be in the mess we are presently in.

[eric5906]

@Scjrd91 : that's exactly what Ron Paul the presidential candidate says. Vote Ron Paul 2012.

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

You people talk trash to this and that person. John Adams that, Thomas Jefferson that and you don't realize that every single man in that room and beond made America. They fought both in the palaces of Paris to the battlefields of America.

They fought for America, they fought for you.

[mrceebees14]

The problem in siding with France is losing a huge trade partner in England. With the British Navy being what it was, you could also expect a nightmare with the Royal Navy intercepting our trade ships.

[VotePaineJefferson]

"With this government, I'm not certain that we are a republic."

Amazingly accurate prediction on Jefferson's part! Look at our government today, we're no longer a republic, but an empire! The politicians are puppets, the rich are treated like nobility, the citizens have become serfs, the public kept ignorant by a corporate owned media!

[tikletik]

@VotePaineJefferson A weak union would have inevitably ended up in a centralized government. The question wasn't between Independent states vs a centralized system, it was a question of what kind of centralized structure we ended up with.

[jteruel671]

@tikletik People need to take responsibility for themselves. A central government happens when nobody cares to govern themselves.

[NaztyNayt]

It wouldn't surprise me, if the people who make these videos saying Jefferson get's spanked or Hamilton owns Jefferson, all work for the government and make these nonsense titles just to keep the people from rising up like Jefferson did.

[kqr573v2]

@NaztyNayt Good lord, that is silly on so many levels at once.

[chufuss]

Jefferson my have not been spanked, but Washington chewed his shorts

[parfitt21]

hamilton's interruption about how the treaty is no longer bindng is probably his most substantial quote from the series

[dluff]

dont forget about the War of 1812, we (US) got spanked in that one.... except for Battle of New Oleans (although war was already over).

[siggy16]

Why did France send a kid, an arrogant one at that

[roopr]

Very Very Very Poor title for this video.

[PKtheFirst]

The US should have sent a token force at least.

[TheUnderpaidTeacher]

Jefferson was right...the govt. set up in America has good intent, but ancient Rome had similar thoughts, and look what happened to them...TERM LIMITS...would help root out much of the corruption, and perhaps the people can finally be heard, and become a more unified Republic. But what do I know, I'm just a guy who loves freedom, and believes it is granted from God. Down with the Fed Reserve and the IRS. Let's elect people who agree with these grave issues.

[billyguns2]

Jefferson is the only true patriot; Adams pushed through the unconstitutional and dangerous Alien & Sedition Acts and Hamilton was pushing for a central bank, the forerunner of the Federal Reserve. I have a fondness for Washington, who tried in vain to keep America neutral and non-political.

[Devsfan202]

@horgogo1 this is the best comment of all!!!! none lol

[googlexxxxxxx]

George Washington is the only one making any sense in this video

0:35 - 0:40

[Blademaster865]

not

[SW189]

I'm confused as to how Jefferson gets "spanked" anymore then the rest, he had his flaws, beliving that the US should join with France in war with Britian at a time that the US couldn't afford it, but I can't say that takes away from the overall impact of him anymore then mistakes made by Washington or Adams

[abnoceans12]

at 7:26 when adams recognizes washington for his administrative acheivements. washington looked honored, relieved and at peace with himself. quite the man. He could have served his whole life but chose to only serve for 2 years.

[oldpreach]

2 terms, 8 years.

[scdarkside]

how in the hell does Jefferson "get spanked?" that's ridiculous... he was the only one in this entire miniseries that was consistently right.... and thank god for him.

[libertyordeaf]

There seems to be a Youtube trend of silly people commenting on these videos that Jefferson is "spanked" or put in his place by Hamilton, Washington, etc. But you're right - Jefferson was one of the revolutionaries who stayed true to the ideals of the revolution.

[AOZXRAY]

@scdarkside Thank God for him but he was not right about the French Jacobin mania.

But I agree with you about the gross cultural mindset that talks about people such as Jefferson in that way.

The French Rev was not the same as America's. France was run by the Illuminati, with a vicious blood lust. That is historical if you look into it.

[Hannanstl]

@scdarkside NWO banker COINTELL propaganda

[TThorne931]

@scdarkside Jefferson was a Southern Faggot

[THeRevolting1]

@TThorne931 He was a human being first an American second and southerner last and had a better education than you asshole

[ws81086n]

@scdarkside yeah, he sure was right about the french revolution

[MurdocIsASaint]

@scdarkside If he would have had his way England would have crushed the USA

[Speegs23]

@scdarkside He was a francophile and did support us involvement in the frnech-english war, that would've been disastrous.

[davidiss1]

The Nerve of that Ambassador!

[chjackson82]

Hamilton was brilliant,but brash

[Devsfan202]

Hamilton was the true clown and got his "just deserts" later in his life.

[LoquaciousInkSlinger]

@Devsfan202 ... Hamilton had views on government that I strongly disagree with, yet, one should not dismiss him as a person just because of it. He was a good man and he had his flaws just as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and everyone else in American history did. At least respect him to know that he had the nerve to stand up for what he believed in.

[Devsfan202]

@LoquaciousInkSlinger Yes-prob noty the best choice of wors but I was ereacting to the "slap" comment. Hamilton was extremely ambitious-and it is ironic he met his end w someone just as ambitious. (Burr)

[LoquaciousInkSlinger]

@Devsfan202... I suppose you could say so, yes.