Bush as a child in his Cowboy outfit.
Here's * as Governor of texas putting on his Governor * cowboy boots.
This * talking toy President action figure comes with President cowboy boots.
http://www.toypresidents.com/view_product.asp?pid=1A * family portrait.
He loves these boots!!!
Western White house boots.
This is from the book "George W. Bush and His Family Paper Dolls"
http://store.doverpublications.com/0486421902.htmlI'm just saying he loves his Cowboy boots.
What does Bush's embrace of cowboy iconography say about him as a leader?
Sidney Blumenthal, from his article "From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib; To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls."
"The distance between the cowboy paintings Bush proudly displays in the Oval Office and the secret-agent torture porn that his administration officials not so secretly watch with envy reflects a yawning chasm in the sensibility of kitsch. Koerner's Western pictures depict an idealized past, where never is heard a discouraging word. At the Saturday Evening Post, he joined with Norman Rockwell to create the brush strokes of a warming nostalgia.
These enduring images infused Reaganism with its emotional culture. Ronald Reagan, after all, had been raised at the turn of the century in small-town Illinois and became a contract player in Hollywood's dream factory. Communicating kitsch was second nature to him. The perfect representation came in the TV commercial for his reelection campaign in 1984. As an American flag was raised in a small town, the voice-over intoned: "It's morning again in America." The past was present and all was right with the world.
Now, kitsch has been radically remade. No longer evoking nostalgic utopianism, kitsch releases the compulsions of fear. Under Bush, kitsch has been transformed from sentimentality into sadomasochism."
Article:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/04/26/torture_policy/Personally, I feel *'s addiction to Cowboys has more to do with his childishness and the immature bully ism of his party. It was easy for them to band together the bullies of our Nation to a common cause, destroying Americans that they disagreed with. The root causes of Attorney-gate, for example, were to further that cause. Their tactics on the floor of Congress were from a bully pulpit that they now, even in minority, have not given up. They still control the radio airwaves, but their ratings are plummeting hard and fast. I think average Americans are tired of the bullies.
Most bullies learn their lesson sooner or later, and unfortunately for us, the lesson has not been learned by the bullies yet. I think they're about to learn a lesson.