Just Breaking Out of the Egg
By Pat Racimora on November 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM in Current Affairs
A little quiz. Who recently compared President Obama to a chick just now pecking its way out of its egg? Your choices are:
Rush Limbaugh
Glenn Beck
Sarah Palin
Lou Dobbs
Chris Matthews
If you guessed Chris “Tingle Up My Leg” Matthews, you are correct.
In a recent show he stated: “[Our President] is like a chilcken breaking out of the egg.” He also expressed concern that Obama was good at knowing what he wanted to do (all those big promises), but not good at discerning what he could do. Mathews even worries whether Obama has the right personnel to assist him.
So, why didn’t Matthews see what was painfully obvious to many of us so long ago? Obama may have positive traits and a compelling life story, but he had absolutely no experience in what our nation’s people need during one of the most challenging periods in our history. And if you are not sure of what you are doing, you aren’t much better at picking people who do.
I hope President Obama learns to fly for all of our sakes. But it’s been almost a year, and I still see him shivering in the nest when it comes to aggressively dealing with the serious situations crashing down upon us all.
If you want to see Matthews asking the hard questions and mkaing the egg comment for yourself (about 2 minutes in), here it is:
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What a great piece of art! Terrific!
Yes, the electorate certainly laid an egg in November. Chris deserves to be pelted with it! Splat! Plop! Blap!
The Obama-fraud has been exposed - the chickens are coming home to roost
The yolk’s on us!
Hilarious!
Hahaha! Excellent!
Missing ingrediant=work ethic…
…as in, Obamacus has none.
Chris, crying again! The A@@hole, along with corporate controlled MSM enabled Mr. President Barry Sotoro, the puppet, to hoodwink the electorate. Hillary, 2012!
It would come as a great surprise to me if Chris was able to ‘man up’ to having made a huge and potentially damaging mistake in his blind support of ‘The One’.
Maybe, just maybe Matthews IS capable of putting this country before his own ego and his own stupidity.
It’s pretty hard to not be aware of the treasonous people Obama surrounds himself with…Stern, Soros, Van Jones, it’s just too tiresome to spell out the whole list…it’s just too long.
Personally, I think these people should be deported and never allowed to return to the US. By the way, is Soros a US citizen? If he isn’t, what the hell is he doing messing around with our government? Shouldn’t there be laws against that?
I knew Chris personally long before he became famous. Even then his ego would suck all of the oxygen out of the room. Don’t look for a mea culpa from him.
How do such plainly pedestrian suckups like Chris ever make it? I am still dumbfounded at what passes now days for interesting people worthy of a second glance. I rather find his show painful to watch.
Ferd, oldmediatype answered. He got the gig caused everyone else was asphyxiated.
Whaaaaat???
Tweety is starting to have doubts?
Now who has egg on his face?
Boo on all of the late comers to the party. I do not want to hear those whiners now that it is way late.
Well, this is certainly a U-turn for Tingles Matthews, who a short 9 months ago said it was “his” job to ensure the Obama administration was wildly successful.
Hope is proving to be a very thin gruel for the foot soldiers, who somehow convinced themselves that inexperience was a virtue. I’ve been reading this sort of Obama-complaint and disappointment for nearly a month from liberal writers.
The Awakening has begun.
Chris Matthews must finally be finding that hill a bit too steep for the constant pushing he’s been doing of that millstone named Obama. I have to believe that Sisyphus is stifling a guffaw right about now..
To me, this implies that the DNC “Layed an Egg”.
By english idioms definition, this translates into “an embarrassing performance”. It can also mean “to fail miserably”. So I guess Matthews got it right for once, only it’s not the golden egg they hoped for, it’s a rotten, undeveloped one.
It will never amount to the golden eagle capable of flying high that he promised to be. Instead it will be a scawny farm chicken incapable of even the most basic functions, except scratching in the dirt with his other cronies and crapping all over the place.
What is this hatching you speak of? Are there downy feathers involved? Perhaps instead of Men Who Stare at Goats we can have Men Who Stare at Chickens.
Excellent cartoon BTW. Love it.
So, Obama was hatched from an egg? Details of his past are slowly surfacing. It’s regrettable though that there wasn’t an egg sucking rat around when we needed one.
You are on a roll–yolk’s on us and hatched..
Onofre’s arm. Really a good one. LOL.
Lets just be glad its not a double yolk egg.
Onofre’s arm, Good one!
(bquote)So, Obama was hatched from an egg? Details of his past are slowly surfacing.(bquote)
sorry, screwed up the quote.
Kind of sad–breaking out of the egg–looking around perplexed–searching all over the world for his mommy and daddy–what kind of bird am I anyway?–I’ll show them! I’ll make them all love me and worship me!–I’ll sing the most beautiful speeches they ever heard–I’ll sit on the highest perch in all the land–Maybe I’m a peacock–Or a nightingale–I’ll make them all know I’m a very rare bird indeed!
Like a dodo.
What great puns many of you made!!
I can see the anti-Iraq-war-turned-trapped-by-the-economy nestling pecking his way out of his egg, looking around to see what’s happening, and asking mommy-bird, “Can I go back in ’til all this is fixed?”
The would-be bantam rooster doesn’t seem to have much to crow about.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Yeah but he reminds me of Miss Prissy the Chicken on the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons of yore.
Remember Senator Claghorn, the big, white rooster in those cartoons. He was so reminiscent of Henry Hyde that I could never look at him without think of the big, barrel chester rooster with the cigar in his mouth.
Pretty punny yourself!
Interesting Cartoon and statement made by one of Obama’s big supporters Chris Matthews. Or, should I say Kool-aid drinker who is now starting to see, as you said, what so many have seen before Obama became president that promises, capability, and action are not the same thing. And yet, there are so many who cannot stand the idea of being wrong or are just too afraid that if Obama is not “the one,” then we are all up the creek without a paddle or on a ship without a captain who knows maybe were he wants to go, but just does not know how the ship works, how to steer the ship, and what to do with whether conditions. Very scary indeed.
On another note, the egg reminds me of the H1N1 and Flu season and how we were told that it is an emergency and we must all be vaccinated and yet this is unfortunate another example of great promises of vaccine being available and the government not knowing what they are talking about and cannot deliver in time to save lives.
Rich
Yeah, and they want to run our healthcare
Them tingles sure can make a guy not think straight.
Yep, Daisy Mae. And those TV ratings are sure a powerful antidote to the out-of-control tingles . . .
As is a send up by Pat Buchanan.
Chris Matthews–what a dumb cluck.
“Dumb cluck.” Good one. LOL!!!!!
Really? What exactly are his positive traits? Certainly not the secrets and lies; the misogyny and sexism; the racism; or the Chicago-style politics.
And the compelling life story? His father deserted him. Sad, but hardly compelling. He was raised in relative privilege in part by a mom and step-dad and then later, by his own choice, grandparents. Compelling? Not really. He got into good colleges, although we don’t know how. Compelling? Not so much. Bullied his way into political office. Compelling? Nope.
Please. The guy is a complete and utter fraud, through and through. And if Tingle Matthews is having second thoughts, it’s too little too late. The damage has been done.
That’s a question I’d like an answer to, as well. I find him as charming as a snake and as truthful as a used-car salesman. He’s the other side of untrustworthy and a real creep. Bush was a joke and I laughed at him daily. That one is selling things people ought not to buy and gives me the willies. I don’t understand the love affair with this shell of a “man”.
Well, he is nice looking with a great smile, reads speeches well and, let’s face it, the guy isn’t ALL bad. Some of his less drastic moves (releasing restrictions on stem cell lines, expanding hate crime definitions, making it easier for women to press sexual harassment charges, etc.) can’t be sneezed at.
Of course I have major disappointments following my astonishment that someone so unknown (and unknowable–one of my early toons was Obama as a Rorschach Test because so much info could not be obtained) with some pretty shady associations would rise as he has. I’m still scratching my head, especially when we had a very experienced candidate in Hillary Clinton.
I know all the negatives about Obama. But he does have a interesting family history and that he role to become President is compelling, even if we are not impressed. And we have to hope that maybe he will get better at what h is supposed to be doing.
Well, Pat, on this one we have to disagree. What he has done so far is coldly calculated for maximum benefit to him at absolutely minimum exertion. He’s plainly at home being inert and “squishy. I find him a callow and shallow, emotionally-stunted adolescent whiner who has used everyone around him just as those around him have used him. This is not good for him, the country, or us.
What Ferd said!
I remember the pundits asking during the early days of the primary if BO was too “exotic” to be elected. Then they said that exotic was racist. And that’s all she wrote…
He’s the Afro-American who has never lived the Afro-American life.
What a laugh when recently he said something about we blacks would rather have been left at home by the fire rather than being sold into slavery here. Phoney Baloney.
He’s so tone deaf. Not a great attribute for a politician.
Then he should have told his grandparents that, they were descended from slave owners. That is the only connection with slavery in Obummer’s background, his ancestors were not slaves, they were slave owners.
Obama’s comment about our preferences might be timely except for these pesky facts. Obama’s family were the sellers not the sellees.
As usual you are right on, Ferd. And, no I don’t think he’s good looking…big nose, floppy ears…
I thought GWB was good looking but not so much when he opened his mouth.
You’re too gracious, Pat. In the eye of this beholder, he’s not good looking nor is he charming and his smile creeps me out.
I have to agree with Clara, Martha, and Ferd. Everything about him is so phoney, so unconnected, so inauthentic, so creepy–because supreme narcissists are so empty inside, there is nothing to connect from or to. I find him repulsive. Cant stand to watch or hear him. Narcissists are so boring!
There is a a deadness, a calculatedness, and a complete disinterestedness in everything he does. Just watch him “hug” candidates for whom he speaks, or the way he shakes hands with congresspeople or whoever after a speech. no connection whatsoever. When he touches them, It’s like being touched by Death. His only other mode of contact is his asserting power by grabbing their arm. when he flashes to smile, it is totally insincere. notice how in the early pictures of young barry that people have dredged up he was never smiling.
I dont think he is a good speechmaker. It’s all an act. I have never been moved by a word he says, never believed a word he says because nothing comes from a real place in him because there is no real place. i am so sick of this meme about his great speeches. are people so dead inside themselves that they actually cant tell the difference? that’s the scariest thing of all — that so many people actually find him charming, actually believe his words, actually can’t tell he a a complete con man.
Thnnks Pat for your topic. Beautiful drawing.
The REAL problem is that the Captain of our Ship must have a full crew and plenty of provisions to get to our destination (a safe and prosperous world).
The Ship of State has been on the rocks for 8 Years.
There’s extreme holes in the bow. Some provisions have been lost forever (world muslim support), and others can not be found.
We are on this ship, and all hands on deck now. The only way off the rocks is to have a high tide and we all row our oars in the same direction. End the War (s) in Central Asia, bring our troops home, stop killing in the name of spreading Democracy, and heal our wounds here in the U.S. Take are of our Vets who went to war following orders and are now in need.
Take care of the Katrina folks. Take care of the less fortunate. Everyone in the U.S. has a right to eat and health care and a JOB. Trillions of Dollars being spent, let’s scream at the Captain, put the engines in reverse, and let’s all row off of these rocks together. Force the Captain to see where we are at. That is our job. Thanks again, Pat.
Uh…This Captain BOUGHT this ship. He played dirty to buy this ship. He spent more money than anyone has ever spent to buy this ship.
and…he said he was better than all the others. Even those long experienced Captains.
He said he would be “the One” to lead us off this rock we’re on…
So I say, get to it, Captain.
( Now,the Captain finds out that “It’s hard.” )
How long before we should start manning the life boats at this ship of state with the
big talker as captain?
With regard to health care reform — what he has to have and what he can’t tolerate — we haven’t heard a…
peep.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
LMAO–Stan, you are a hoot!
Freakin’ awesome toon and post, Pat! You are amazing!
The recent election of Republicans in states where Obama campaigned for Democrats does not bode well for Obama having a second term. He had better get some form of health bill passed and make a sensible decision about Afghanistan soon if he is to have any hope for a future in politics. He is politically between a rock and a hard place no matter what he does on those issues. He needs emerge from the shell and show firm decisive leadership if he is to have anyone’s respect.
Pat most exellent artwork!
Now when he falls out of the nest, I just hope to feathers that he doesn’t around asking “Are you my Mother?”
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Ha! Thanks for the toon and the riddle. I can’t remember when I last watched Mathews.
I guess the worm turns!
Por wittle chickie……NOT.
Hello
I think Obama is taking good steps for country.I really adore him.Obama has given a lot of people hope around the world and has helped in improving the image of the US.Thank you.
How sweet, complementes! I’m so very happy for your warm and fuzzy feelings for Obama. Now, step away from the Kool-Aid and face the reality that your Savior is nothing but a false prophet. You were bamboozled!
Old timers on farms here called chicks “diddles” and bantam roosters “bantees”.
Thus BO is a small, diminutive diddler!
A combative disposition who crows loudly!
When backtrack bought the job he had no expectations of really doing the work. Why should he? He never had to work in any job he ever had. Someone else did the work he took the credit.
He is doing eggacktly what he expected, nothing and getting paid well and plenty of bennies.
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
ditto what ferd said… our prez reminds me of the booking agents I used to have- and if you’ve been a pro musician, you’ll know that isn’t a compliment! pffft!
LOL.Nice cartoon.
Chicks need mama hen for warm temp and food.BO has many shady czars doing the work for him.Smart chick ?
Tingles says “I’m not a dittohead.” Hahaha. Like some obots we know? No, he’s more like an Obama fetishist with zero credibility.
It begs the question “Which came first, this turkey or the egg?”
O’s A–LOL!!! Love your comments. You are really funny!
Apparently Matthews doesn’t know what happens to male chicks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ–faib7to