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Nitrogenica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:00 PM
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* and his Cowboy Boots.
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=1

A * 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.html

I'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.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:02 PM
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1. That bootmaker has made a set for every president since Reagan I think. nt
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:06 PM
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2. Probably the last horse Li'l Boots' boots ever dangled from.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:09 PM
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3. The guy is a creep, and the paper dolls are really creepy, but re: the Doll...
Went to the link for the * doll and c'boy boots. Then, clicked on the link for ALL the ToyPresidents Collection, and look who was there!

Arnold Fucking-Schwarzenegger! :wtf: He is NOT a president!:wtf:



http://www.toypresidents.com/view_product_var.asp?pid=700
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:11 PM
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4. Jeezus - a picture of * on a horse!
I'm surprised that picture hasn't been splattered all over the MSM to counter the widely held belief that bush for all his fake cowboy affectations is scared shitless of horsies.
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:11 PM
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5. Those "Western White House" boots chap my ass
Crawford, Texas is the *South*, not the West.

We despise him here. I'm 1659 miles west and north of Goat Roper George.
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:14 PM
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6. Just his cheap attempt to imitate ronnie
who for all his faults actually worked on his ranch and knew how to ride a horse. This candy ass is a preppie punk trying to appear macho.
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:15 PM
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7. dimetstore cowboy
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:17 PM
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8. Some 5 year olds never grow up...........
it's unfortunate that some are even allowed to become president.
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madame defarge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:18 PM
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9. I'd like to see both those boots...
up his arse.
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:19 PM
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10. The only way a Bully ever learns
is if his victim finally has enough
rises up
and beats the crap out of him

Is it time yet?
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Nitrogenica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:23 PM
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11. I think that time is closer every day. I'm just waiting for average Americans
to join that cause.

Impeachment may be the only solution.
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subterranean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:54 PM
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12. Yee-haw.
That's the first picture I've ever seen of this "cowboy" on a horse.

I think the boots would actually look better on Laura.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-20-07 01:57 PM
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13. somebody didn't remove the anti-theft thingie :)
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