Posted on 11/26/2004 3:26:59 PM PST by CHARLITE
Over Thanksgiving I had very little to do. I was ahead of schedule on a consulting project, which is where I like to stay. I accepted an invitation to a great cook’s home for a traditional Thanksgiving meal, which meant I would not need to cook for several days. This hostess always invited six or seven friends over and prepared enough food to feed everyone that came to the Salvation Army’s Thanksgiving dinner.
Well as luck would have it the guest list included mostly liberal Democrats who were still depressed and complaining about the election their candidate and party had just lost. The main comment repeated over and over about President George W. Bush was that he was a “cowboy” straight out of the old west.
This comment started me thinking about what they really meant. All the guests, except me, were northeastern “city slickers” liberals between 50 and early 60. This told me that they had grown up with early television programs like “The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry,” and movies like “High Noon, Shane, and The Man From Laramie.” Not one of these individuals had ever been to “Dodge City, Tombstone, San Antonio,” or the real old west.
I continued to ponder the description of George W. Bush as a “Cowboy” and decided to make a list of characteristic that would apply to an easily recognized American cowboy as portrayed in the media of their early childhood years. From the movies and early television programs we saw that the cowboy hero never went looking for trouble. The trouble seemed to always find him. This seems to fit George Bush when we take into account 9/11 and the falling economy that Bill Clinton left behind.
A cowboy when presented with a crisis always faced it head on. He never looked to someone else to help him solve a problem. If others wanted to stand with the cowboy he would always be grateful for their assistance but when action was required to take care of the bad guys, he never spent days trying to build a "coalition" in the saloon. The American cowboy would seek out the individuals causing the problems and capture or kill them.
Cowboys always had names like Will, Matthew, or Cisco, but I never heard of one named François, Helmut or Kofi. It seemed like American cowboys came from a heritage that did not lead back to France or Germany.
The American cowboy was never on the side of the evil villain. He could always be found on the side of honesty, integrality, and what was morally correct. Considering statements and actions from individuals like Usama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and Kim Jung Il, these characteristics seem to still be fitting George W. Bush.
While your never heard the cowboys preaching religion from the pulpit or talking about their high moral values, you always saw them on display in everything the cowboy did. George W. Bush still fits this description.
The American cowboy was a man of few words. He never tried to talk the villain into changing his evil ways. He said what was on his mind regardless of what was politically correct and let the bad guy decide what he was going to do. There was never any uncertainty about where the American cowboy stood.
After these few moments of reflection on the characteristic of an American cowboy, I must admit that the other dinner guests were absolutely correct.
George W. Bush is a “Cowboy,” and I am damn glad he is.
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I love our cowboy!!
Bang!
Pictures!!!!
This is great! The best description of President Bush as Cowboy I have seen.
Nice photo of W!! One of my daughters mentioned that he was "hot" in a cowboy hat, I'd agree.
This one was done by Registered. www.registeredmedia.com
Until he bought the Crawford place I don't think Bush worked any cattle. But he was West Texas Oil Field Trash which is a more prestigious honor.
Simply put by my Dad: George Bush is a man's man.
And Laura is every inch a lady.
The author SHOULD have told this to that group of LEFTIES!
I wish I could find a "cowboy" like him.
Not bad; but harks back to Velasquez' portraits.
Where did you find that golden oldie? Looks like an Atlas A.
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