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(International Herald Tribune) Cool A cast of 300 advises Barack Obama. Ready your pancakes and eat hearty... For tonight, we dine in HELL   (iht.com) divider line 32
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DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 01:43:33 AM  
Not bad. I give it a +1.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 02:53:40 AM  
Hundreds? How come he's not asking anyone on FARK??????

 
Rethorn 2008-07-18 03:04:11 AM  
Give them nothing, but take from them their pancakes!

 
SeismicJizzer 2008-07-18 03:24:37 AM  
+1 subby

 
Aarontology [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 03:29:39 AM  
This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. These are not your pancakes.

 
cretinbob [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 03:39:43 AM  
Don't forget about Czechoslovakia

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 03:50:04 AM  
guys...."pancakes" was never very funny to begin with, and now its getting REALLY old.

 
Occam's Chainsaw [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 04:09:11 AM  
log_jammin: guys...."pancakes" was never very funny to begin with, and now its getting REALLY old.

That's not Fark snark you can believe in.

(Yah, they're overplaying the pancakes meme worse than Avril Lavigne on a top 40 station.)

 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 04:14:12 AM  
Unless I miss my guess, we're in for one wild night.

 
3_Butt_Cheeks 2008-07-18 04:55:47 AM  
Are all 57 states represented?

 
log_jammin [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 05:05:26 AM  
3_Butt_Cheeks: Are all 57 states represented?

yes. several trollops as well.

 
nekulor [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 05:09:46 AM  
www.airwarriors.com

/This is caketown.
//Pancakes served at Thermopylae.

 
random_brit_39 2008-07-18 05:14:33 AM  
Gyrfalcon: Hundreds? How come he's not asking anyone on FARK??????

How do you know he's not?

 
nekulor [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 05:40:32 AM  
Link (new window)

United 300. This IS UNITED!


Consequently, this is Barack Obama's average daily fight flight.

 
BlameBush 2008-07-18 06:46:26 AM  
Brilliant: The Chosen One needs 300 people to figure out what's happening in the world and tell him what to think and say because of his inexperience in such matters. Good to see he is prepared to be Commander in Chief.

/Maybe they'll fill him in on the function of the Joint Chiefs
//Yay! Vote for Change!
///Because that's all you'll have left.

 
Son of Thunder 2008-07-18 07:42:36 AM  
BlameBush: Brilliant: The Chosen One needs 300 people to figure out what's happening in the world and tell him what to think and say because of his inexperience in such matters. Good to see he is prepared to be Commander in Chief.

Dialing down the snarkosity, the answer is actually "yes." We refer to the President as Leader of the Free World. That's a lot of world, and unless we somehow find a candidate with an IQ of two thousand, and sixteen PhDs, nobody is going to be enough of an expert on everything to run the show alone. In fact, a study of Presidents' personalities a while back (I think the researcher's name was Winters. It's been a while) showed that poorly-performing Presidents tended to be the ones who thought that they could do it all themselves. I consider myself a fairly intelligent man, but if I was supposed to be running a country, you bet your boots I'd be surrounding myself with large numbers of the smartest advisers I can find.

On an unrelated note, "The Chosen One needs 300 people" makes me think of "Oh, the mighty Ator must have TWO swords!"

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 08:17:29 AM  
BlameBush: Brilliant: The Chosen One needs 300 people to figure out what's happening in the world and tell him what to think and say because of his inexperience in such matters. Good to see he is prepared to be Commander in Chief.

/Maybe they'll fill him in on the function of the Joint Chiefs
//Yay! Vote for Change!
///Because that's all you'll have left.


who you surround yourself with says a lot about what kind of president you are. bush surrounds himself with stunningly incompetent loyalists and machiavellian neocons.

 
PenisGargle 2008-07-18 08:51:28 AM  
FlashHarry: BlameBush: Brilliant: The Chosen One needs 300 people to figure out what's happening in the world and tell him what to think and say because of his inexperience in such matters. Good to see he is prepared to be Commander in Chief.

/Maybe they'll fill him in on the function of the Joint Chiefs
//Yay! Vote for Change!
///Because that's all you'll have left.

who you surround yourself with says a lot about what kind of president you are. bush surrounds himself with stunningly incompetent loyalists and machiavellian neocons.


If obama wins, he's not going to pull out of iraq immediately (he said 16 months). He wants to put MORE troops in Afghanistan and he also said he'd stomp Iran if they challenged us. Is that the Change you can believe in? Shuffling around our troops in the middle-east?

 
soakitincider 2008-07-18 08:58:46 AM  
socialism is inefficient

 
unexplained bacon 2008-07-18 09:04:33 AM  
PenisGargle: If obama wins, he's not going to pull out of iraq immediately (he said 16 months). He wants to put MORE troops in Afghanistan and he also said he'd stomp Iran if they challenged us. Is that the Change you can believe in? Shuffling around our troops in the middle-east?

he intends to reduce forces in iraq, putting more responsibility on the iraqis, as he should.
our forces would be there to train iraqi forces, prevent humanitarian disasters, and halt any al qauda advances.

he should put more troops in afghanistan, do you disagree?

what iranian challenge would provoke this obama stomp you're referring to?

Barack Obama believes we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. Immediately upon taking office, Obama will give his Secretary of Defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: ending the war. The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased, directed by military commanders on the ground and done in consultation with the Iraqi government. Military experts believe we can safely redeploy combat brigades from Iraq at a pace of 1 to 2 brigades a month that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 - more than 7 years after the war began.

-Under the Obama plan, a residual force will remain in Iraq and in the region to conduct targeted counter-terrorism missions against al Qaeda in Iraq and to protect American diplomatic and civilian personnel. He will not build permanent bases in Iraq, but will continue efforts to train and support the Iraqi security forces as long as Iraqi leaders move toward political reconciliation and away from sectarianism.

-Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. Now is the time to pressure Iran directly to change their troubling behavior. Obama would offer the Iranian regime a choice. If Iran abandons its nuclear program and support for terrorism, we will offer incentives like membership in the World Trade Organization, economic investments, and a move toward normal diplomatic relations. If Iran continues its troubling behavior, we will step up our economic pressure and political isolation. Seeking this kind of comprehensive settlement with Iran is our best way to make progress.


http://www.barackobama.com/issues/foreignpolicy/

 
ZachF81 2008-07-18 09:09:28 AM  
I saw this headline last night, on a (real) news site, and I honestly thought that for some odd reason the cast of the movie "300" was advising Obama. Only for a second or two, but I was perplexed.

 
MindStalker 2008-07-18 09:10:41 AM  
PenisGargle: FlashHarry: BlameBush: Brilliant: The Chosen One needs 300 people to figure out what's happening in the world and tell him what to think and say because of his inexperience in such matters. Good to see he is prepared to be Commander in Chief.

/Maybe they'll fill him in on the function of the Joint Chiefs
//Yay! Vote for Change!
///Because that's all you'll have left.

who you surround yourself with says a lot about what kind of president you are. bush surrounds himself with stunningly incompetent loyalists and machiavellian neocons.

If obama wins, he's not going to pull out of iraq immediately (he said 16 months). He wants to put MORE troops in Afghanistan and he also said he'd stomp Iran if they challenged us. Is that the Change you can believe in? Shuffling around our troops in the middle-east?


I'm not middle-east policy expert, but the current policy is, "Bush is the decider even when his military advisers who know more about this stuff suggest otherwise." Want real change I guess we could elect Ron Paul, but as we have it we have a current President who surrounds himself with yes men, and a choice between two future Presidents one who doesn't seem to bother with advisers much though may be slightly humbler than Bush, the other who obtains the top minds in relative fields.

//I'm a registered Republican, voting for Obama, I hate his socialist policies and hope we get some more Republicans in congress to balance them out, but I'd choose someone who listens to advisers over someone who wants to act like King any day.

 
Somacandra [TotalFark] 2008-07-18 09:13:54 AM  
img1.picturewizard.com

 
czerno 2008-07-18 09:29:50 AM  
300 sucked. Sorry

 
Cyborg77 2008-07-18 09:39:01 AM  
What kind of President needs to be told his opinion on world affairs? He should just be able to make judgment calls based on his gut instincts and shoot from the hip. 300 voices will just confuse things. We need one strong leader who knows what needs to be done and will do it, no matter how many countries we have to invade or whatever the cost in money or lives.

/End troll

 
Kelli372 2008-07-18 09:46:40 AM  
Came for some really hot pics of Gerard Butler...sort of disappointed so far.

 
leegalizit 2008-07-18 09:51:26 AM  
usversusthem.files.wordpress.com

Just to prove there was a time that pancakes were funny.


/If you didn't think "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" was funny you may possibly have no soul.

 
glutton 2008-07-18 09:57:30 AM  
Cyborg77: What kind of President needs to be told his opinion on world affairs? He should just be able to make judgment calls based on his gut instincts and shoot from the hip. 300 voices will just confuse things. We need one strong leader who knows what needs to be done and will do it, no matter how many countries we have to invade or whatever the cost in money or lives.

/End troll


Heh. I didn't know Dick Cheney was a farker.

/If you really meant this, I feel sorry for you.

 
danlpoon 2008-07-18 10:40:04 AM  
The Obama threads are pretty light, lately. Remember when these things went instantly to "Too Many"? Good times. Obama isn't the click magnet he was a few weeks ago.

 
DeRosso 2008-07-18 11:05:23 AM  
Top adviser

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grumpyguru 2008-07-18 12:29:42 PM  
no wonder we have a black candidate that looks like he can win. he has 300 advisers that are mostly white telling him what to say.

 
King Something [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 11:06:28 AM  
log_jammin: guys...."pancakes" was never very funny to begin with, and now its getting REALLY old.

I completely agree.

Pancakes woulda made a terrible comedian; and is so old he might kick the bucket before the Republican convention, with an over 90% chance of buying the farm before 2012. Anyway, Pancakes is just Chimpy McFlightsuit with Alzheimer's.

 
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