He can't be a "cowboy" anymore

[DenaliDemocrat]

For years Bush has portrayed himself as the Texas "cowboy". I grew up on a ranch, and I will be the first to admit I was never much of a cowboy myself. I am too big to be very agile on a horse, and I usually found myself doing the jobs like pushing calves, where my lack of finesse and skill was inconsequential and my size and strength were all that were needed to complete the job.

I guess I always questioned how Bush got to be a cowboy. He clears brush to open the pastures, but he has no livestock. Hell, he doesn't even own a chicken, let alone a herd of cattle that would denote a cowboy. As far as I can tell, he just wears boots and a hat and talks funny. Where I grew up, we called that pretending. Anyway, whever I mentioned this to some Bush supporter, I was always chastized on how "he captures the image of the cowboy. A hero. A man of principle".

Well, it's official. Bush is no cowboy. Once again, Daddy had to come to the little closet-shit's rescue. Not exactly the Code of the Old West now is it? I have to say, this old kindasorta not very good cowboy is laughing his off tonight. I plan on telling everyone who chastised me that I WAS RIGHT AND THEY WERE WRONG! HE WAS PLAYING MAKE-BELIEVE.

[muntrv]

1. All hat and no cattle.

[MadMaddie]

2. * is not from Texas......that is the big secret....his family lived

up North in a very affluent area before moving to Texas....

He might of been a manly cowboy to Rove.......

He is pathetic...daddy is going to bail him out of this shit too....

You are right he is playing make believe with being a Cowboy and a president....and many Americans suffered because it..

[rhiannon55]

3. pushing calves?

aww, poor things.

Good post! :hi:

[MethuenProgressive]

4. Carpetbagger. Even the accent's fake.

Born in Connecticut, educated at private Massachusetts prep schools, and went to Harvard and Yale - some "cowboy"!

[Mythsaje]

5. I grew up in farming country...

Raised goats, pigs, chickens, and rabbits. Had my own horse. Bush is a spoiled little rich boy playing dress-up. That's all. Part of the image he sold to the rural voters was that of the guy who gets up before dawn, goes out to milk the cows, feeds the livestock, then comes in to get breakfast himself before heading out to the back forty to check and mend fences.

THEY know what all that's about, but were possibly fooled by a man who played the part but had never done it.

[laststeamtrain]

6. He does sound like Gabby Hayes sometimes...

[Twillig]

7. Truman Capote Cowboy

Sorry for the slander to the late writer, but, here you go:

[spindrifter]

12. What a find! That has to be the worst, but most characteristic

photo of him.

[az chela]

17. Oh MY GOD

That is the stupidest thing I have ever seen!!!he needs to check into a psych war fast.Talk about playing dress up.
He is the biggest joke on this planet.Who does he think he is kidding???
He should get a barbie outfit,it would be more believable

[az chela]

20. Truly a drug store cowboy

Watch out you little horses,here I come,or was that chickens,never could get that straight

[beam me up scottie]

19. Alfred E. Neuman and family:

[GoneOffShore]

21. Are they all Republicans?

Or do they just play one on TV?

[beam me up scottie]

23. I still get the creeps when I see this photo.

Would you let them publish it if this was your family? :scared:

[TygrBright]

22. Cripes. He looks like a Village People wannabe... n/t

[GoneOffShore]

8. He's a 'goat roper'

as an old girl friend used to call wanna be cowboys.

[Nicole]

9. He never was a cowboy

Do they even have cowboys in Connecticut?

[porphyrian]

10. The questions is, could he be a cowgirl... - n/t

[txindy]

11. He can't be a cowboy if he's afraid of horses. Besides, he's from CT.

He's certainly not from Texas. He just uses us like he's used everyone else in his life.

[tinfoil tiaras]

13. Dumbya is from Connecticut and went to New England Prep School

I agree with you, I hate it when people think he's a cowboy. Those two guys in Brokeback Mountain have WAY more cowboy in them than * will ever have in him.

He's such a poseur. And it's a not very convincing act at that.

[Kali]

14. working calves can be done with finesse

using brute strength on animals near your size is exhausting. I think of it in a martial arts sort of way. Using their strength against them. ;)

[rainbow4321]

15. Tester needs to send chimp to his Montana ranch.

Just read Tester's bio in the NYT...chimp wouldn't last an hour.

Geez, the article said Tester lost THREE fingers in a meat grinder machine when he was young. Makes one appreciate the more mundane household chores we have to do each day.

[Wiley50]

16. The Truth about the Bushes un Texas and the country boy routine

The story of the Bushes in Texas began when Poppy got a stake from his daddy, Prescott (who made his fortune representing the american interests of Fritz Thyssen,
the german industrialist who bankrolled Adolf Hitler) so Poppy could go to Texas and get in the oil business; Poppy made his "oil fortune through a disreputable (but legal at the time in Texas) practice of "Slant Drilling".

Basically, he would buy a non-producing oil claim immediately next door to a claim that was producing lots of oil.
Then, he would first threaten his neighbor that he would Slant Drill ( drill a well at an angle in order to tap into the producing oil pool of that neighbor, unless said neighbor sold out his claim to Poppy at an absurdly low price. If
the guy next door refused the offer, he would follow up on the threat.

I didn't grow up in Texas, but I lived for about a decade in Oklahoma, where my girlfriend's father was the Washington
lobbyist for the Independent Petroleum Producer's Association, a group of "wildcat" oilmen. That's where I got the story.

I, myself, grew up on 640 acres in Tennessee. I know a lot of good working class country people in TN who are totally
snowed by Chimpy, mainly because they think he's "a Godly Man" cause their preacher told them so and because he protects them
from "terrists" "cause Chimpy tells them so.

What I don't get is that they continually vote against their own best interest by a guy who it has to be obvious to them
is putting on his country accent. That's strange because they usually hate anyone who would Mock them.

[jwirr]

18. Poppy should get his friends to help bail *ss out. Let me see, how

much money has he wasted on things like the illegal Iraq war? Maybe the can help us pay the debts the kid ran up.