Quantcast
Channel: getty images News from BuzzFeed on October 12, 2015 at 1:10 PM
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 50

Underdog Democrat Makes Odd Speech At Hawkish Foreign Policy Forum

$
0
0
BuzzFeed - Rob Kim / Getty Images WASHINGTON — There aren't many more incongruous places for an antiwar Democratic presidential candidate who supports leaving Bashar al-Assad in power and developing closer ties with Venezuela to appear than the annual forum for the Foreign Policy Initiative, a hawkish right-leaning Washington think tank. But this is precisely where Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island senator and governor who is currently polling at 0.2% in the most recent Real Clear Politics average, spent his Thursday afternoon. Chafee, who arrived at the conference a couple hours in advance of his onstage conversation with FPI policy director David Adesnik, treated the crowd to a full look at his foreign policy positions which are to the left of likely every single other person running for president. Chafee used to be a Republican and switched parties in 2007. Chafee supports lifting sanctions against Russia in response to its hostilities in Ukraine. He openly states that Sy

Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 50

Trending Articles