It’s time  to reclaim the word “cowboy”.... I’m tired of the  president making   negative comments like “cowboy diplomacy” or politicians saying that Europeans dislike us  because “cowboy capitalism.” I’m Susan Allen, with more on cowboys after the break. Until recently the word  “cowboy”  symbolized, hard work, ethics and honesty...think John Wayne or Nolan Ryan,yet liberals would rather we  picture “George Bush “ merely  because he wore cowboy boots and haled from Texas. If that’s fair then the word “professor” should also be used to  denote  recklessness to thanks to wacko Ward Churchill or Harvard’ disorderly Professor Gates.  A essay by Elmer Kelton titled True Grit is making waves in the rural west. Kelton writes he’s tired of turning on the news and hearing the word cowboy “hijacked by pundits and politicians.”  He states that if of these folks had spent a day with his father on his ranch or with the thousands of working cowboys in Texas—they’d  have a different idea.” Yes it’s hard to picture Obama pulling a calf, even chopping wood like Reagan. Both Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt  would have been devastated  that Kelton pointed out, the real cowboy has been lost in reckless rhetoric  that uses his name in vain,  and he  thinks “it’s too late to save the image of the cowboy.” There are those I know  who still respect rugged individualism, it’s time to rescue the  “cowboy” from unscrupulous politicians I’m Susan Allen