So far as I know I’m the only one using Cowboy, and it’s hardly a pejorative. There is perhaps no single other term that better exemplifies American individualism, self reliance, and free enterprise than the word Cowboy.

Obama will never get it because he only has technical Americaness. A Chinese kid growing up in San Francisco playing stick ball in the street is moe American that Obama will ever be. Whatever twinge he might have had would not have survived Harvard.