In an interview published this week by Esquire, former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee acknowledges he probably should not have made the “metrics system” a top plank in his quixotic run for president of the United States, the Providence Journal reports.
Said Chafee: “I guess the big mistake — I went back and forth on including the metric system angle. I was just crossing my fingers there would be some intellectual approach to the various proposals I put out in my announcement speech, which kind of covered the gamut, from ending capital punishment, to bringing Edward Snowden home.”
He added: “Unfortunately, my crossed fingers didn’t work, and it just turned into more of a joke about metric, not ‘let’s look at the bigger picture.'”
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