Lincoln Chaffee launches bid for Democratic POTUS nomination

[dbackjon]

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Lincoln Chafee threw his hat into the presidential race on Wednesday, announcing his campaign for the Democratic nomination.


“I like challenges,” Chafee said during a speech at George Mason University. “Today I am formally entering the Democratic race for president.”

Wait, who?


The 62-year-old former Rhode Island governor, who formed an exploratory committee in April, enters the race as a longshot who like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley faces an uphill battle against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

[dbackjon]

FCS connections here - Undergrad at Brown, then went to Montana State for horseshoeing.

[Grizalltheway]

We don't call it Moo U for nothin'.

[Ivytalk]

Former RINO.

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[CitadelGrad]

Chaffee Fever is sweeping the nation. Oh wait, that's syphilis. Never mind.

[Baldy]

A 67 year old washed up has been.
Two below average governors that nobody knows or cares about.
A socialist.



Donks.

[GannonFan]

Lincoln Chaffee has an actual position in his campaign (according to NPR) where he wants to move the US officially to the metric system. Meritorious or not, he's unelectable.

[AZGrizFan]

Dennis Miller tweet:

Lincoln Chaffee is running as "the less charismatic Bernie Sanders".

[93henfan]

I haven't been this excited for a candidate since George Pataki.

[AZGrizFan]

I haven't been this excited for a candidate since George Pataki.

That guy from Star Trek?

[Pwns]

Lincoln Chaffee has an actual position in his campaign (according to NPR) where he wants to move the US officially to the metric system. Meritorious or not, he's unelectable.

Good luck with that. You might as well try to ban the QWERTY keyboard layout or try to make hexadecimal numbers standard.

[AZGrizFan]

Lincoln Chaffee has an actual position in his campaign (according to NPR) where he wants to move the US officially to the metric system. Meritorious or not, he's unelectable.

Some of us are old enough to remember being taught the metric system in grade school because the US was going to move to it to sync up with the rest of the planet...

[GannonFan]

Lincoln Chaffee has an actual position in his campaign (according to NPR) where he wants to move the US officially to the metric system. Meritorious or not, he's unelectable.

Some of us are old enough to remember being taught the metric system in grade school because the US was going to move to it to sync up with the rest of the planet...

Wait, now you're calling me old. I loved the NFL Films short they did on a ficticious move by the NFL to go metric. "Gone were the days of saying like 'three yards and a cloud of dust' and 'it's a game of inches' ". Quality stuff there by NFL Films.

Frankly, I never understood the desire. People in science generally use metric anyway, so that already happens - we're not going to be better at the sciences because we all use metric while growing up. And converting anything to anything is dirt simple anymore. And frankly, using deg F is more user friendly than using deg C - I just like having a wider scale to tell what the temperature is.

[CitadelGrad]

Lincoln Chaffee has an actual position in his campaign (according to NPR) where he wants to move the US officially to the metric system. Meritorious or not, he's unelectable.

Some of us are old enough to remember being taught the metric system in grade school because the US was going to move to it to sync up with the rest of the planet...

Yeah, what ever happened with that. Oh yeah, Jimmy Carter got unassed from the AO.

[AZGrizFan]

Some of us are old enough to remember being taught the metric system in grade school because the US was going to move to it to sync up with the rest of the planet...

Yeah, what ever happened with that. Oh yeah, Jimmy Carter got unassed from the AO.

Oh, it predated Jimmy....I learned that shit in the late 60's-early 70's.

[Grizalltheway]

Yeah, what ever happened with that. Oh yeah, Jimmy Carter got unassed from the AO.

Oh, it predated Jimmy....I learned that shit in the late 60's-early 70's.

I learned/used it in science classes in the early to mid-2000s.

[Ivytalk]

Lincoln Chaffee has an actual position in his campaign (according to NPR) where he wants to move the US officially to the metric system. Meritorious or not, he's unelectable.

Even in Rhode Island.

[89Hen]

Lincoln Chaffee has an actual position in his campaign (according to NPR) where he wants to move the US officially to the metric system. Meritorious or not, he's unelectable.

Thank you for that reference. I'm playing golf at a course tomorrow that is in meters instead of yards and one of the guys made reference to LC and I had no idea what he was talking about.