GEORGE W. BUSH IS A COWBOY -- THANK GOD!

The Iconoclast ^ | January 20, 2003 | William Grim

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William Grim's
AMERICA WATCH

GEORGE W. BUSH IS A COWBOY -- THANK GOD!

by William Grim, Iconoclast Contributing Editor

Our good "friends" in Europe never tire of saying that President George W. Bush is a cowboy. I guess they think that is an insult, but it just shows, once again, how little our "friends" really know about the United States.

Let's consider the Cowboy for a minute and what he represents. The Cowboy is symbolic of those qualities that, in more honest times, used to be called the manly virtues: an affinity for hard work and honest dealings; independence of spirit and thought; love of family, community, country and the land that sustains them all; a commitment to fair play and justice; a love of adventure and exploration; and the willingness and courage to defend with his life those rights that had been won by the blood of so many who came before him.

The Cowboy, confronted continuously by danger -- whether from rampaging beasts, the inexplicable vagaries of climate and geography, or desperadoes -- displayed more courage in a 24-hour period than do all the denizens of the fashionable salons of Manhattan and the faculty rooms of the Ivy League combined during their entire lifetimes.

It wasn't the shrill imprecations of the chattering class that created America and made her great. No, America was founded by the blood, sweat and tears of the Cowboy and the men and women who viewed the Cowboy as the beau ideal.

It is the simple dignity of the Cowboy, the realization that there should be normative standards of behavior -- the Code of the West as Zane Grey called it -- which puts the Cowboy at odds with our cynical and morally ambiguous age. The Cowboy may not have been much of a scholar or even much of a conversationalist, but he had the wisdom of a sort that appears to be lacking in the most learned men of our age, namely, the realization that there is right and there is wrong and the ability to discern the difference between the two.

But the Cowboy is not just the most perfectly realized symbol of the moral goodness and strength of character of the American people. He is also a beacon of hope for the rest of the world................

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Fighting words from Iconoclast's wise seer, William E. Grim.

A tribute to America's everyman President, George W. Bush.

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[RAY]

AMEN! Let us make it simple again, where right is right and wrong is wrong!

[Jumpmaster]

Contrast the cowboy archetype with that revered by the opposition. Specifically that of the Bedouin.

[McGavin999]

Very good. I've never understood why europeans think calling someone a cowboy should be considered an insult. But then, the europeans have long been considered by us to be fools ;o)

[rintense]

Excellent piece!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The smart Euro's moved over here.

[solo gringo]

Cowboy President are the best.Where a man is a man and the women are proud of it.

[HighWheeler]

Blair: "I wanna be a cowboy."

[alloysteel]

One factor may be that the Europeans were secretly rooting for the Native Americans. The American cowboy has, fairly or not, been pictured as the enemy of the Native Americans, but this totally obscures the fact that people of every ethnic classification, including Native Americans, have lived as cowboys. There were black cowboys, former freed slaves, who wandered west after emancipation, and emigrants of every stripe, as well as law evaders, undiagnosed psychotics, escaped convicts and those who were merely fleeing an intolerable life, who became the army of poorly paid, and largely unseen, rural laborers, living out lives in isolation and dying alone and unremembered except by a very few acquaintances. Yet in their very estrangement from the rest of society, the American cowboy has left his mark on the psyche of all Americans, an idealized and remote vision, that perhaps never really existed in fact.

[rintense]

Hehehe! I think both Blair and Putin wanna be cowboys.

[Ditter]

Great article! They think they are being insulting by calling GWB a cowboy, but to me its the best thing anyone can be. I married a real cowboy 44 years ago. He is a cowboy retired now but his attributes are still the same. Strong, hardworking, honest, generous & funloving. Long live the cowboys!

[driftless]

Yes, we're the richest most powerful country on Earth by far. What fools and cowboys we all are (yuk,yuk).

When all the Euro-wimp countries save England are overrun by Moslems and governed by sharia, we'll see who the fools are. They'll be begging for the "cowboys" to come in and save them again.

[lavaroise]

Europeans claims sophistication, but for all their sophistication, their synthesis is invariably the thesis of the thugs and those about to invade them. In other words, Euros pretend they think, but they do not, they just bend over and call it glorious and civilized.

On the other hand, the Cow Boy is not a butt boy, and he does think, for every thesis the Cow Boy will look for an antithesis, shooting back. Yes, once Europe admired courageous thinking, now it calls it primitive and uncivilized... truth will cream up one day and the Euros will be found at the bottom of the sewer sledge.

[lavaroise]

Contrast the cowboy archetype with that revered by the opposition. Specifically that of the Bedouin.

Exactly my thought.

[ktw]

That is right. We saved their butts, two times already!!!

[Free the USA]

fyi

[struwwelpeter]

While I was learning German and living over there, I read a few elementary-level Cowboy books written by a German author. The concept of a fair-dealing, quiet but dangerous when aroused cattle hand was identical to ours. I was a little put off by the overly romanticized Indians and overly greedy railroad types, but that's Europeans for you.

Their continent gave us fascism, national-socialism, bolshevism, marxism, and a lot of other -isms that murdered perhaps a hundred million people. If "cowboy" is the best insult they can come up, we're in good shape.

Try to think of anything nice to say about Europe - the vocab doesn't exist. Cultured - as in yoghurt? Cultivated - as in crops? Nada.

One neighbor kid who had trouble with his English homework wanted to know why the long-distance trucker was an American folk hero. He couldn't figure out if it was the pay or the ability to drive fast. I gave him a word and told him that was our unofficial national motto, even an aircraft carrier was named this. He said it in school and the teacher told him to write it on the blackboard:

INDEPENDENCE

He got an '5' (A+).

[jwfiv]

fador the post.

Most lefties have big trouble with cowboys...I think they're vaquerophobes...they fear and despise individual freedom, so of course they must revile the cowboy.

May God bless and protect Dubya, that tall man in the saddle with the red dirt of West Texas on his boots...our First Cowboy.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Wasn't LBJ a cowboy from Texas?