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This entry was posted on Saturday, October 10th, 2009 at 7:15 am by Matt Davies.
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29 Responses to “Great Expectations”

  1. marinadog

    AN AWARD IS FOR SOMETHING YOU DID NIT WHAT YOU MAY DO…...

    Matt I will put this in terms you can handle….

    You are a great Artist But a very big but I have lecturer at SUNY AT BUFFALO on Poetry. There fore I like Barry could and would have them eating out of my hands…

    Now If i Drew One very weak Carton and it was submitted to Pulitzer committee and they said Matt is great but heck look at Dog’s potential. And gave me the Award. People would rightfully said the fix was in.

    This was done 276 hours not even days after taking office.

  2. Matt Davies

    Marinadog – You’ve got me scratching my head. Did you even attempt to read and understand the cartoon before you posted?

  3. marinadog

    yes matt if I ever see you again I will explian lol

    I think even woth yesterdays comments you aprove by todays commenst

  4. Topgunner

    MarinaDog must talk in tongues. I have no idea what he/she intended to say.

    Let’s try this … proof read before you hit send and maybe, just maybe, someone other than the many voices in your head will hear and understand you.
    I doubt it, but it may improve the possibilities…

  5. marinadog

    TOPGUNNER : what great hings in 276 hours did Barry do??
    or from Feb 1 till now

  6. artisan33

    This is the “You’re Not GW Bush” award, but giving it to an egotistical freshman with no sense of America’s true history is more than just a weird anomaly….(weird as it truly is).....it is an attempt to hem in the actions of an American president, by a pathetic and jealous Europe, awash in its own crippling political correctness doctrines, mis-run by a corrupt Euro Parliament, and thus unable to fight the internal Islamic conquest now taking place in its streets and apartment blocks.

    Norway’s Nobel comittee wishes to pull the USA down, and so it puts this huge embarrassing Dunce-Cap on Obama’s swelled head, knowing full well that he lacks the balance, judgement, and true sense of American mission that would allow him to say: “No Thanks”.

    As we watch him strut around, glancing in mirror after mirror to make sure his “Prize” is still attached to his fuzzy noggin, he morphs from American president, into Euro-Clown Supreme, kind of like Caligula, when he had himself declared a god, and his horse elected to the senate.

    If he does not refuse the prize, Obama asserts by doing so that he is fit only to concede, only to submit , only to give away preogatives bought by the blood of a million dead American soldiers, mouldering in graves across Europe.

    These prerogatives are not his to give up, they are ours, but with ridiculous shimmering Dunce Cap on high, the Obama-puppet now dances to Norway’s silly tune, proven a fool forever, a fool with our 300 million lives in his hands.

    God help us all !!

    The Nobel “Kick-Me” prize !

  7. artisan33

    That would be …”prerogatives”

    My apologies.

  8. artisan33

    Next, I would think it appropriate if every college elected Mr. Obama homecoming queen, just to round out his prize list.

  9. Topgunner

    Now, now neanderthals. The Nobel Peace Prize is given to the person who the committee believes helped to foster world peace. It may well be the “You’re not GWBush” award this year but that’s only because former President Shrub (small bush) succeeded in alienating not only enemies, but friends with his foreign policy. Had there been a Nobel War Prize, I’m sure Shrub would have been at least a runner up—next to Kim Jong Il and Dick Cheney no doubt.
    As for what Obama has done so far, I’ll take a world that is more accepting of US policies and a US that is more willing to listen before bombing any day.
    Hurry home now, the fire in your cave may be dying…

  10. marinadog

    oh like

    North Korea
    Iran
    they love barry…..

    have stopped their NUKE program….

    right…..

    Get your head out of Barry *&^ the Media is up there already

  11. Iceman1980

    Once again I find myself parroting Artisan33, though I’ll try to put my own spin on this.
    First, it must have killed Matt to make a critical editorial comment on Obama, gentle though that criticism might be (and yes I know it was more about the Committee that the Pres.).
    Second we should keep in mind the award was granted for what Obama has done. Whenever he has taken the international stage he has criticized, and apologized for, America. In addition, Obama has gone out of his way to say there is nothing special about this country.
    When asked if he believes in the concept of “American Exceptionalism” – the idea that the US is a unique nation anointed by God to bring Liberty and Freedom to the people of the world, his response was telling. He stated that he believed in the concept the way the British believed in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believed in Greek exceptionalism. When asked during the campaign if he supported American sovereignty, he said he believed in “responsible” sovereignty. In both cases the qualifier rendered the answers as “no.”
    It is this belief that the US is only one of 190 nations in the world, no better & and no worse(?), that the one-worlders in Europe gave Obama the prize.

  12. jp

    Matt—Excellent cartoon!

    -jp

  13. artisan33

    GW Bush ought to be given the Nobel “No Further Jihad in the USA” prize. He earned it, and kept us safe for 8 long years.

    Euro-cucks, already inundated by, and successfully intimidated by a heady combo of their own political correctness plus The Pliestocene street jihad principles of “Dar-El-Harb” religious war, are embarrassed by a free USA acting like a nation, and humiliated by watching the USA successfully defend itself under idiotic (but patriotic) GW. Do not forget that Islamic gangs now rule Europe at the street level, and honor killings, and jihad stabbings are routine now on the continent. Your European PC Kaffirs are Dhimmi jihad-meat.

    Watch for what the Jihadis are cooking up for the “Paris Hilton President”... Knowing he is now emasculated by accepting the Nobel puppet prize, they will launch a major martyr action in the USA, before this clueless empty suit leaves office. By doing so, they will make the man their slave, a process begun for them by Norway, and its humiliating ankle bracelet of a “going steady” prize.

    AH, the glory of it !!...To go down in history as Norway’s cuckold-boy.

    Give me a dumb ass patriot over a smart ass Quisling, any day.

    By the way, my IQ is 160.

  14. Artisan33

    Oh, I forgot….. you PC cucky-boys don’t know what a “Quisling” is, do you?

    A Quisling is a traitorous national leader, who rules in the interest of foreign powers.

    From Wikipedia:

    “To writers, the word Quisling is a gift from the gods. If they had been ordered to invent a new word for traitor… they could hardly have hit upon a more brilliant combination of letters.”

    Barack Hussein Quisling

    Has a kind of ring to it !

  15. TJ

    Hey Matt, You part time now? my sympathies..it was a good gig while it lasted…they gave you a pretty big palate to screw with peoples minds and now it is gone….so sorry

  16. McGriff

    hey artisan33

    Obama’s first 9 months in office = 0 terror attacks

    Bush’s first 9 months in office = terror attacks claim 3,000 lives, world trade center demolished into rubble, pentagon damaged, four airliners lost.

  17. Artisan33

    Not related to the great Jimmy McGriff, are you?

    The Clinton terror attack that happened in Bush’s first year was already planned out, financed, all sleepers in the USA, safe houses bought, and flight training finished, before GW was elected.

    The Bush peace which is reigning in Obama’s first year will wear off gradually, as the jihadis see just how low Obama can be taught to bow.

    When his neck is low, low, low….. then they strike the Jihad blow, blow, blow.

    Get it?

    If they imagined a terror strike in the USA would result in another million or so dead muslims, they wouldn’t even begin (The Bush Effect).

    If it’s made real clear that any martytr action will just result in talk, talk, talk, (The Barry Effect) they will plan, plan , plan, and begin writing up a list for Barry to fulfill, once he accepts conversion to the true faith.

    That will be about a day or so after the explosion, or the dam collapse, whatever.

  18. Magee

    Amazing to see how easily certain knuckle draggers on this blog can be cued by some snobby Norwegian committee into sedulous rants of altiloquent flapdoodle – and that written information can get jumbled beyond recognition while people are simply copy-pasting WorldNetDaily talking points.
    Well, most likely they were bumfuzzled to begin with…
    Whatever.
    What I initially dropped by to say is: Your work is excellent, Matt – though your cartoon seems overly pessimistic about the outcome of the ‘call to action’. Cheer up.

  19. Artisan33

    I too have congratulated the much-too-Euro Matty D. on his admirable cartoons, but not on his political savvy, which is kind of lacking.

    Please note, the cartoon shows Obama, “the peace dove” is just an egg.

    Norway’s egg.

    Not America’s egg.

    And there’s the rub.

    (By the way, what in the sam hill is “World Net Daily”?)

    If people outside the USA are “grooming” Mr. Barry, then the word “Quisling” really does apply. If he fails to cast off their seductive chains, then “Euro Uncle Tom” might also apply.

    It all depends on what the meaning of “American” is.

    For those who are unread, I submit the following:

    If you think the “War on Terror” is gone, because Dubya is retired, then you never read or understood Islamic history.

    The Bedouins (pre-Arabs) were conscript cavalry in the late Roman army, and by 500 A.D. were the most capable formation in that army. They worshipped a moon god in a black stone
    and fought among themselves constantly, so the Romans thought they would never pose a threat.

    Until the Prophet (peace be unto him) united them, and had them suddenly turn on the entire rest of humanity as their sworn victims. The only out, was to join them, and continue the eternal war against everyone else, or to die.

    There is to be no Muslim reformation.
    The early days (the war days…. the time of the Prophet..peace be unto him ) are revered as unique,
    sacred, and never-to-be-repeated-or-equalled.

    So don’t expect an Islamic St Francis of Assisi to suddenly appear & calm things down. If he arrived, he would be condemned as kufir, and stoned to death. Likewise
    any Islamic Gandhi. Simply impossible. Will never happen.

    The (Islamic) universe has only two parts.

    1) The house of Submission

    and

    2) The house of War.

    The house of submission is the Ummah——Dar El Islam.

    The house of War….Dar el Harb….....is the entire rest of (as yet) unconquered humanity.

    Dar El Harb has only one destiny….. to be conquered and disappear into death, or into Islam.

    There is no Islamic co-existence.Any believer advocating co-existence is kufir—apostate, and may be killed by anyone at any time, without punishment.

    So…

    G.W. Bush probably couldn’t understand the complex, and very sick reasoning I have found in dozens of Islamic history texts, but at least he thought a bad thing was coming, and we better get ready. Barry Soetaro Quisling Hussein Paris Hilton “Obama” went to Islamic study school for 10 years and fully understands that Islam demands the USA become “slave island”, but he ain’t telling us Ofays , kaffirs, and kufirs what he learned back in Soetaro.

    Too bad.

    We gonna need it.

  20. Artisan33

    OK, OK, OK, .... I researched Norway, Quisling, & WWII

    Here’s what popped up:

    I don’t demand that a policeman befriend my family, or like the same music CD’s as my kids like. I just demand he stay honest, and awake, so his job protecting me & mine gets done. I don’t demand a first responder fireman know ballet the way my daughter knows ballet, I’d actually prefer he lift weights, and maximize his service strength, in the event we should ever need his services.

    So, too, in a major politician.

    He need not share my philosophy. He need not have my religion, or for that matter, any religion at all. All I demand, is that he recognize that in the American paradigm, he serves me.

    There are no aristocrats in the USA.

    G. Washington was offered the kingship, and wisely demurred.

    However, there have been cases of other political figures, trained in contrarian thought, who imagined that elevation to emperor might be fun (Napoleon), or that elevation to secular godhood might be deserved (Lenin), or that kingship, even emperorship were necessary (Maximillian), for the good of the governed. They all turned out to be wrong, from the upside-down Mussolini, to the gasoline-charred Shicklegruber, to the oh-so-clean (but bloodless) Marat.

    But what about slightly smaller anomalies….. sainthood, maybe. Or undeserved Nobel prizes? What of MLK, Gandhi, JFK, RFK, and a host of others, others who gave all to further the American polity? Shall we seek the adulation of European failed states fast falling prey to the pre-democratic real-politik of Dar El Harb? Shall we let soon-to-be-slaves decide who becomes American president? Would the choice that emerges from such brinksmanship serve us here at home? Or only those over there?

    Do we choose Norway’s King?

    Should we want to?

    Conversely….

    Should Norway choose American leaders?

    Norway.

    Mono-racial.
    Tiny.
    Insular.
    Isolated.
    Inundated with mideast emigres.
    Posing as “special”
    Highest rate of European alcoholism.
    Highest rate of European suicide.
    No historical role.
    Irrelevant to world social evolution.
    The wealthiest “hoarder” nation on the planet.
    A monarchy under Sami King Harald V
    Willing participant in the Third Reich
    15,000 Norwegians volunteered to fight for the Third Reich.
    6000 Norwegians fought for Germany on the eastern front.
    All Jews arrested in Norway, were arrested by Norwegian police.
    Vidkun Quisling ran Norway for Hitler.
    150,000 Norwegians are children of Nazi soldiers.
    400,000 nazi troops were in Norway, a country of just 3 million. Norway was slated to be the “Last Nazi Bastion”,
    should Berlin ever fall ( Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven).
    Norwegian Nazi official.

    If Norway has a guilt complex, let it seek Psychoanalytic counselling. America is not its voodoo doll.

    But, apparently, Barry IS.

  21. D-Bag Detector

    Artisan33, taking boring to a whole new level.

  22. Matt Davies

    @TJ – I’m busier than ever, I’m afraid. My, um, “palate” has expanded by 85 newspapers as of two weeks ago. You may notice I am taking a few days off here and there but it’s to work on some other cool side projects.

  23. D-Bag Detector

    Oh Matt, too bad you had to break that news to TJ. He/she sounded so excited to think you might have been underemployed and perhaps as miserable as they are.
    TJ, you sound like sad, petty person. My sympathies to those who suffer in your presence.

  24. Lord Baltimore

    Artisan – please tell me you have a blog or twitter account or someplace else I can follow your genius. It’s unfair to keep your IQ and correspondingly magnificent thoughts from the less-equipped public. I simply cannot get enough.

  25. jp

    Yes, me too! I want to be enlightened further by religiously following Artisan’s “my IQ is 160” blog!

    -jp

  26. GCat83

    It might just be me but if you erased that mustache I’d swear that was George Soros cooing to that little egg…

  27. Artisan33

    And if you think my opinions (as stated above) have no basis in fact,..... just read:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8308982.stm

    Have a great weekend

  28. Another Guy

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_%28film_director%29

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pim_Fortuyn

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Intelligence_and_National_Security_of_Iran

    http://97.74.65.51/Printable.aspx?ArtId=9355

    http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2926,css.print/pub_detail.asp

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574398290365247498.html#printMode

    http://www.johnleo.com/2006/02/12/islamic-radicals-take-advantage-of-western-liberalism/

    http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2009/02/how_many_honor_killings_are_there_in_islam.html

    http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Main_Page

    http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/1460?tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

    http://www.globalpolitician.com/print.asp?id=2864

    http://www.globalpolitician.com/print.asp?id=3423

    http://www.city-journal.org/printable.php?id=2567

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  29. B-MAN

    Or this:

    http://tinyurl.com/TABBYCAT9

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