[butterdezillion]

You think he thought he would finish less than half of George W Bush’s term and then serve 2 full terms of his own? That’s the only way that would work.

[Johnny B.]

You think he thought he would finish less than half of George W Bush’s term and then serve 2 full terms of his own? That’s the only way that would work.

I think he was speaking in general terms.

That's far more reasonable than thinking he would be planning on a two-year overthrow of the government, and that he would then let it slip in some interview.