Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Trust Mistrust

| March 5, 2012

All relationships are built on trust. This marketing truism sounds trite, but in all examinations of every type of relationship, an absence of trust creates and absence of a relationship. When I amble down to the corner saloon for an end-of-day distilled brain relaxant, I trust the bartender to serve an honest pour, the bar [...]

Occupy Buffet

| February 21, 2012

Obama is a magician, and Occupy Wall Street is his audience. Magic acts consist largely of misdirection. While Penn Jillette’s painted fingernail on his left hand distracts your attention, his right hand pulls cards from outside your field of view. Barack Obama stokes fire in Occupy Wall Street’s belly, raising anger against banks and big [...]

Rham Headed

| February 11, 2012

Many folks think the perpetually foul-mouthed mayor of Chicago long ago lost his mind. We now have proof. Rham Emanuel, Barack Obama’s former Chief of Staff, has tossed his political head into the never ceasing Chicago gun control abattoir. This new-found champion of lost causes now demands the Land of Lincoln (you remember him, the [...]

Waiving Goodbye

| February 9, 2012

Obama is wavering. I do not imply that Barack is backing away from self-anointed splendor or as pretender to a non-existent throne. Nor is he shedding his socialist snake skin. Instead he has adopted the mode of Saudi sheiks, holding audiences in which he bestows beneficence and dispense special dispensations. Obama has created the presidential [...]

Bolshevik Barbuda

| February 7, 2012

A gathering of socialist midgets is bound to be entertaining. The Mighty ALBA Cartel Led by the new millennia’s blundering Bolshevik and perpetual odd job Hugo Chavez, a tiny number of microscopic Latin American countries clustered to create a development bank. Named after South America’s revolutionary hero, who went from freedom fighter to dictator in [...]