Some say; "It used to tick me off when the Muslims 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 happier I am that he is."
When I was a kid, cowboys were my heroes.
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,
Paladin, Maverick and others....
Rawhide's Rowdy Yates
What were common attributes of these legendary cowboys?
Here are a few:
Still JoAnn saying this! 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.. 
They represent something
good -- something pure that America
has been missing. 
Ronald Reagan was a
cowboy.
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. 
They also hate President
Bush because he distinguishes between good and
evil. 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. 
He also told the French
to "put their cards on the table" (old West
talk),
which they
did, exposing their cowardice and
greed.
The radical Muslims are
wrong.
In the old West, might
did not make right. 
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.
He got his
man!
Cowboys do, you
know.
Your Little Bitty Buddy
Andy
Disclaimer - JoAnn said all those things, not I, I say all of the above are "Drug Store Cowboys"
The real cowboys were "Vaqueros," such as Teddy Roosevelt recruited in Northern New Mexico, and rode with him at San Juan Hill- My grand-father, Benito Chacon, was among them. A real Cowboy and Mule Skinner!