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I just discovered the text that I saved for "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" on my hard drive, from that web page that isn't up any more. He interspersed the text with some of our favorite presidential, and other, photos. The dude sounds like a FReeper.

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- Sam Weller

A cowboy's in the White House. [childhood photo of W on a horse]

It used to tick me off when the Muslim detractors in the Middle East, or the socialist detractors in Europe, Hollywood and others called our President a cowboy, but the more I think about it, the more glad I am that he is. [photo of W in blue suit taking off a white cowboy hat, standing at podium with people behind him]

When I was a kid, cowboys were my heroes. [John Wayne photo]

Well, I mean the ones in the white hats, not the black hats, who were usually the bad guys.

There was Tex Ritter, Tom Mix, Buck Jones,

Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone Ranger.....

there was Red Ryder, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers......

then later, there was Marshall Matt Dillon, Hoss & Li'l Joe Cartwright,

the most decorated cowboy hero - Audie Murphy,

Paladin, Maverick and others....

Rawhide's Rowdy Yates

What were common attributes of these legendary cowboys?
Here are a few:

1. They were never looking for trouble.
2. But when trouble came, they faced it with courage.
3. They were always on the side of right.
4. They defended good people against bad people.
5. They had high morals.
6. They had good manners.
7. They were honest.
8. They spoke their minds and they spoke the truth, regardless of what people thought or "political correctness," which no one had ever heard of back then.
9. They were a beacon of integrity in the wild, wild West.
10. They were respected. When they walked into a saloon (where they usually drank only sarsaparilla), the place became quiet, and the bad guys kept their distance.
11. If in a gunfight, they could outdraw anyone. If in a fist fight, they could beat up anyone.
12. They always won. They always got their man. In victory, they rode off into the sunset.

Those were the days when there was such a thing as right and wrong, something blurred in our modern world, and denied by many.

Now, as a senior citizen, I still like cowboys. [photo of Bush in white cowboy hat with Olympic flame burning behind him]

They represent something good -- something pure that America has been missing.

Ronald Reagan was a cowboy. [photo of Reagan with horse] I like Ronald Reagan, who was brave, positive, and who gave us hope. He wore a white hat. To the consternation of his liberal critics, he had the courage to call a spade a spade and call the former Soviet Union what it was -- the evil empire. Liberals hated Ronald Reagan. [photo of Reagan]

They also hate President Bush because he distinguishes between good and evil. [photo of Bush in cowboy hat with Christmas tree behind him] He calls a spade a spade, and after 9-11 called evil "evil," without mincing any words, to the shock of the liberal establishment. That's what cowboys do, you know. [flight deck photo]

He also told the French to "put their cards on the table" (old West talk), which they did, exposing their cowardice and greed. [flight deck photo with pilot]

The radical Muslims are wrong.* [W in truck, wearing cowboy hat]

In the old West, might did not make right. [photo of W at inaugural ball, flashing the presidential seal on his cowboy boot]

Right made might.

Cowboys in white hats were always on the side of right, and that was their might.

I am glad my President is a cowboy. [landing on USS Abraham Lincoln]

He got his man! [two photos of the captured Saddam]

Cowboys do, you know. [God bless America graphic; photo of W at his ranch; W with the troops]

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