Also his campaign treatment of John Adams was lousy.
Well, in fairness Adams was not perfect either. The Alien and Sedition Act is something Obama would admire and love to copy. No man is perfect, although Washington came awfully close. Jefferson? A genuine polymath genius and mass of contradictions. But if only for the Declaration, Louisiana Purchase, and stopping some of more Tory inclined Federalists from reconstituting a monarchy on this side of the water he is due respect.