While I had a horrendous time trying to determine anything Goofy Sarah Palin was trying to say in last night's debate, it looks like at one point she said someone named "McClellan" was the head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
I thought this McClellan-mistake was most telling because it helped underscore the entire tone of the debate for Palin. A tone that made her look like a complete clown or buffoon. Shakespeare could not have made a clown better than this. Her comments, winks, shout-outs, gestures, and lack of sincerity, was all ridiculous. If this was any other candidate, her performance would have been laughed off the stage, as it rightly should have been. But no, because everyone had seen her recent interviews and was afraid Sarah the Clown could not even string two sentences together, this performance was considered acceptable. It was only acceptable for a clown! And that is how it should be treated.
Lets take a closer look at this after the jump.
First, here is the video of Sarah The Clown on stage last night:
Here is the text:
Well, first, McClellan did not say definitively the surge principles would not work in Afghanistan. Certainly, accounting for different conditions in that different country and conditions are certainly different. We have NATO allies helping us for one and even the geographic differences are huge but the counterinsurgency principles could work in Afghanistan. McClellan didn't say anything opposite of that. The counterinsurgency strategy going into Afghanistan, clearing, holding, rebuilding, the civil society and the infrastructure can work in Afghanistan. And those leaders who are over there, who have also been advising George Bush on this have not said anything different but that.
How funny, was she confusing General George B. McClellan with the real head of troops in Afghanistan, Gen. David D. McKiernan. Who knows?
Hmmmmmmmm, it makes you wonder who really was "pointing backwards" here. Maybe Sara Palin was using that time machine John McCain built, to go back to 1862 when General McClellan was Lincoln's head of the Union Army.
Look, here is Goofy Sarah The Clown meeting with her General McClellan:
That was just a little attempt at humor there. After last nights performance where I wanted to gouge my eardrums out if that would only make her stop, I thought we could all use a little humor.
Therefore, I thought I would try to get to the bottom of this and figure out who Sarah The Clown was talking about. I put together a little list below of people that she could have meant.
Here are my top ten choices for what Sarah The Clown could have been "talkin" about:
- The heretofore mentioned George, the General with a bad case of ''the slows,'' McClellan.
- Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has agreed with senator Obama that more troops are needed in Afhanistan, and claims he has not been " shy about saying that those forces will not be available unless or until the situation in Iraq permits us to do so."
- Nicole McClellan from " Nowhere Alaska." Click on the Myspace link, this is too funny, you can not even make this stuff up.
- General Dan K. McNeillwho was the U.S. commanding officicer in Afghanistan until June 3, 2008. who said the U.S. forces in Aghanistan were an "underresourced force."
- Army Gen. David D., "The word I don't use for Afghanistan is surge," McKiernan, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force and the real top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan.
- Grandpa McCain, hey, it starts with a "Mc" and maybe she just lost focus again.
- Scott, "I could not say honestly today that this administration does not believe in torture," McClellan, Bush's former White House Press Secretary.
- The McClellan Oscillator, (It is an obsure Stock Market indicator that some use to predict declining bear markets.) Hey, who knows what they were trying to stuff in her head during the debate prep and what she might have been thinking.
- Mack McClellanfrom Wasilla, Alaska. Again, you can not make this stuff up.
- Former Senator John McClellan, U.S. Senator from Arkansas who was chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Observances and Holidays in 1969 and credited by many as partly responsible for "National Clown Week."
So, there you have it, it all starts to make sense now. Or, at least, as much sense as can be made, when Sarah The Clown comes to town.
[I do not know who or what this is, and besides how frightening it is, I just liked the "don't touch the clowns sign" that can be seen in the back.]