Biden: End “cowboy mentality” of Bush-McCain era
STERLING, Va. (AP) - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says part of the solution to the country’s financial crisis is “ending the cowboy mentality of the Bush-McCain era.”
I like cowboys. They are one of the greatest American icons.
Why do Obama and Biden hate America and her greatest icons?
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Uhhh…because YOU’RE A RACIST?
Oh, good heavens, I’ll do anything if it will just keep you from calling me that horrible, horrible name.
Even become a racist.
Because of McCain’s immigration stance(s), I’d call him a gaucho.
Actually, my first reaction was: That’s obviously a rhetorical question, right?…
Then again -
Biden’s pure Easterner, probably the first time he came into close proximity to any genuine cowboys was at the DNC in Denver. He appears to be a true-”blue” wheelhorse, likely to diss just about anything that’s regarded as an “icon” anywhere in “flyover country.”
Obama, on the other hand…well, maybe he just never heard of any of these guys…
You see, cowpersons or cowperdaughters don’t earn a whole lot so they fall into the 50% or so of Americans that pay zero income tax. As Joe Biden has recently reminded us, paying income taxes is patriotic. Accordingly, NOT paying income taxes is unpatriotic. Therefore, cowpersons and cowperdaughters are unpatriotic and should be looked down on by Joe Biden (son of a salesman) and all other right thinking people.
Obama and Biden don’t like cowboys because they don’t like cows. They prefer sheep. Sheep who will follow any leader without question or independent thought. Sheep who will stand around to be fleeced time and again.
(Note that I’m demonstrating my new, more mature and sophisticated attitude by not mentioning The Two Retards and sheep sex.)
?????
I thought your new attitude involved chain saws and crotches.
I wish to apologize if I may have offended Joe Biden. I just heard his claim that his first wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver. Thus does “Blue Collar” Joe aspire to double sympathetic status (the first arising from his claim that he rose from a blue collar background as his father’s occupation was a PA coal miner).
What?!? You say these claims are fake! Well sure, fake but accurate.
I see cowboys as the ultimate independent SOBs.
Able to do darn near anything with help for nearly noone.
Never asking for a handout but willing to work for a meal.
Pull themselves up from the bootstraps after a fall and soldier on.
Say what they mean and mean what they say.
Come to think of it, they are the antithesis of the current Democrat.
The answer is obvious.
Biden and his fearless leader are city slickers and we all know about them.
I wish the left (and europeans for that matter) would make up their mind (singular) whether the character of the right is dominated by libertine cowboys or puritanical prigs. Either accusation gets pulled out on a whim, never seeing the contradiction.
Liberal/Leftists like Obama and Biden take their cues as to what is good and proper from European socialists. America isn’t a socialist country, therefore America is a bad (or evil the further left you go) country. For Obama and Biden, they do not love America. America only will become lovable, when it becomes socialist.
The Liberal/Lefties just want America to become another cog in the global/civilized world, no different and no better and no more successful than the European socialist countries. They’re embarrassed by America as it is. They’re embarrassed by American history. They’re embarrassed by the lone American going out to fight for justice. They’re embarrassed by cowboys. Cowboys aren’t a committee or even committee chairman.
This explains why Obama Biden don’t like cowboys.
Because they hate America and despise independance, All socialists do.
homunculus: libertine =/= libertarian.
Bill: chainsaws will be involved in my humourous comments, as earlier, non-chainsaw humourous comments were too subtle to be recognized as such. My new, mature and sophisticated attitude would seem to preclude the use of chainsaws to make a humourous point, but that’s just one of the sacred mysteries of the Church of Steve.
You might think it egotistical of me to set myself up as a deity, but I’m in plenty of good company. (Well, maybe not good company; they’re all communists. But lots of company, anyway.)
(That first link was one of the top hits from a quick “Mao Tse Tung” seach. Imagine my surprise when it was to a small college that was across the street from my old house. (Literally across the street; I’d walk to the dorms a few times a year and ask the kids to turn the music down. And be invited to join them once in a while, but never by someone cute enough to be tempting.) Imagine my non-surprise to find that the parent page features a name I know, a two-bit Commie sympathizer who has to wear step-ins because she’s too friggin’ stupid to tie her shoes.)
An English lord came to Wyoming about 120 years ago to visit the ranch of an American friend. When the nobleman rode up to the corrall, he saw a cowboy sitting on the topmost rail. “Is your master at home?” asked the Englishman in his upper-clas accent.
The cowboy looked at him silently and then slowly turned his head to the side and spat into the dust. “The son-of-a-bitch ain’t been born yet.”
They hate the cowboy way because they are pretentious, wannabe overlords who hate having their delusions of adequacy punctured.
As James Lileks once put it, “Trying to insult an American by calling him a cowboy is like trying to insult a Frenchman by calling him a gourmand.”
They don’t like cowboys because cowboys ride horses and EVERYONE now knows that their prefered animal is a pig.
And there is plenty of evidence of pigs on the left.
One only has to look at our own(ugg) cbc to see one of the more repulsive pigs-heather mallic.
Horny Toad
A job doesn’t get finished when it’s started with a promise and finished with an alibi.
Youv’e get to get the job done, whatever it takes — that’s the cowboy way.
Ride hard, shoot straight, and speak the truth
So, now the code-word for Republicans is Cowboy,, LOL.
Oh, Ok, well let me see if I can stick the blade in a lil deeper and twist it then, just bought a AK-47 yesterday, still in the box, 1991 model, never been fired, no registration, no paper filing, no waiting period, it’s laying on my pool table at this very moment,, 7.62 mm , with a banana clip that holds 2 boxes of shells.
For the first time in my Adult life I may have some admiration for something Made in China.
“Cowboy” is shorthand for hubris for them. Of course Joe Biden doesn’t have a more sophisticated idea of hubris any more then a fish can describe “wet”.
Bill Clinton wanted people who couldn’t afford houses to buy them. Maybe that’s a charitable idea, but there’s also some kind of oblivious hubris to it.
I hope McCain calls him on this.
DO NOT romanticize cowboys they were only human entitled to make mistakes*.
* shamelessly borrowed from a song.
Here’s an idea, McCain/Palin should organize rallies of people with any connection to cowboys — rodeo riders, ranchers, rodeo clowns, horse breeders, boot makers, whatever — and give rousing speeches about how Democrats hate them so much they keep using THEM used as a pejorative template (or, however you’d phrase that to a cowboy…)
Biden has called McCain “Bush 44.” Now he’s referring to the “Bush-McCain era.”
Is his subconscious trying to tell us that he expects McCain to be the next President?
I would have thought that since “Broke Back Mountain” the Democrats would have warmed up to the cowboy thingy.
The two cowfaggots who starred in that movie showed definite and popular Liberal qualities. One of them recently died of a drug overdose … another common liberal quality.
Of course, straight and real cowboys are the best and will likely continue to drink strong coffee and vote republican .
What’s NOT to like about cowboys or cowgirls?
Gene Autry’s Cowboy Code:
The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.
He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.
He must always tell the truth.
He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.
He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.
He must help people in distress.
He must be a good worker.
He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.
He must respect women, parents, and his nations laws.
The Cowboy is a patriot.
It’s always good to see a bunch of new commenters, but with the good is always some bad.
John V, we understand that you have bad thoughts and feel you have to overcompensate to purge the guilt, but try to get your facts straight. Brokeback Mountain’s characters were sheep herders, not cowboys. And you’re confusing the actors and the characters.
Oddly enough, the most recent several comments on your own blog didn’t have the same vitriol as you displayed here. Is this just an example of not peeing in your own living room?
If I may offer a response to your rhetorical question:
They don’t REALLY hate cowboys. They would just seem foolish if they said “WITCH!”, which is what they really WANT to say.
Perhaps the archetype for cowboy hatred was Hans (Alan Rickman) in “Die Hard”, with his vituperation against “Roy” (Bruce Willis). Probably the role model for Obama/Biden.
Oh, wait - wasn’t it also Alan Rickman who was instrumental in bringing that revoltingly pro-Palestinian play about terrorist wannabe Rachel Corrie to Broadway? (Or was it London?) Apparently his role as Hans was type-casting.
#25 Gene Autry’s Cowboy Code:
This is a conservative creed… So now you know why they don’t like cowboys
’nuff said.
I think if we could all work together to end the cowboy mentality in America, and nurture the gay cowboy mentality instead, then folks on the left would be pretty happy.
Gene Autry never met Van Leek.
Cowboys tended to be realists. Another realist is “Hondo”.