Our "Cowboy" President Fails the Barbecue Test

[kskiska]

WACO, Texas - A lot of people call President George W. Bush a cowboy, as if that's something bad.

They're wrong. Cowboys are something good.

Cowboys work hard. They toil in blazing heat or driving snowstorms. They risk their lives to save a calf separated from its mother.

Although they are self-starters and self-reliant, cowboys know teamwork.

Cowboys are men of few words, but when one talks, you can take his words to the bank.

President Bush, my neighbor a few miles removed, is no cowboy.

(snip)

Like the current president, Johnson favored Western clothes and owned a Texas ranch. On the cowboy scale, the difference between the two men comes down to barbecue.

Any man who wears boots and owns a ranch and invites people over for catered barbecue cannot be called a cowboy.

Catered barbecue. That's inexcusable. That smacks of Eastern prep schools, Ivy League colleges and vacation homes on the New England coast, all parts of the Bush family heritage before they moved to Texas.

There's something about barbecue that goes with masculinity - old-fashioned manliness. It's not that women couldn't do it better, like most things; it's just that standing around a smoking barbecue pit while clutching a cold libation makes men feel good about being men.

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[barbaraann]

1. The Bush men are effete, not manly.

Some of the women, however, ARE manly. :-)

[wryter2000]

3. LMAO

DU keeping me sane.

[Kolesar]

5. that is funny

We should have a "manliest Bush" poll and see if Barbara outpolls Laura.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

2. As a cook

I could not agree more with this. The man is counterfeit in every aspect-sad and disgusting.
And, oh, where are all the media ho's who got so bent out of shape over Kerry's cheese gaffe? This is much worse: Kerry at least never claimed to be true-blue South Philly, while Chimpy McAWOL loves to dress up in cowboy togs as much as he does sporting military get-ups. And it turns out, both outfits are equally valid to his actual experience: NOT VALID AT ALL.

[Lisa]

6. how about the Bush cheese gaffe? "Brie and cheese"

I mean if he were trying to be non-effete, even knowing vaguely what "Brie" is surely is a giveaway.

[TacticalPeek]

4. What else would I expect from a Connecticut Yankee?

Born in New Haven, which I believe was originally not mentioned on his WH web bio page, but seems to now be added.

http://www.reaganfoundation.org/kk/stuff.asp?PresID=43

[Lisa]

7. he didn't list it in "Who's Who"

Interesting, because all the past Presidents and First Ladies have listed their birthplaces.

[asjr]

8. barbecue

Well, actually he was found under a rock but someone threw it in the ocean.

[Wetzelbill]

9. You know back in MT

I was raised on a farm and, when I was younger and dumber, competed in rodeos as a bullrider until I realized they had a penchant for the sight of my blood. I wasn't even really a cowboy, to tell you the truth. I was an athlete. Real cowboys work hard all the time, and I know and am related to plenty of them. Bush is a priveleged brat, who wouldn't know what it was like to lead a stick horse to a trough of water. He's about as much a cowboy as Tom Delay is a humanitarian.