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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (567900)	4/23/2004 8:53:43 AM
From: Jagfan	Read Replies (1) of 769670

WASHINGTON - It is increasingly difficult here to differentiate between the startling fictions that spread like wildfire and reality. This was never more true as when a somber and serious President George W. Bush was giving his speech last Sunday. The president, in the past, has been doused with scorn and ridicule as "just a trigger-happy cowboy." Watching and listening to the president, it was evident that this was a serious, thinking leader. George Bush's detractors chose to forget that in America the cowboy is a mythic figure. Hollywood and scores of Western novels have a theme: The lone cowboy rides into a town suffering under the tyranny of corrupt, lawless men and routes the evil-doers, restoring peace and prosperity. Cowboys pioneered the cattle trails north from Texas to the railheads leading to the stockyards of Chicago. They were perceived as conquering new frontiers and as embodying individualism. President Ronald Reagan, a screen actor in the 1940s and 1950s, made several of his most successful films in the Western or cowboy mode as did John Wayne. With these all-American cowboy example of Ronald Reagan, George Bush should be proud of the accolade "cowboy." pittsburghlive.com

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