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August 17, 2008 2:07 PM

Obama Meets With T. Boone Pickens

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Maria Gavrilovic
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Barack Obama
(CBS)
From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:

(RENO, NEV.) Barack Obama met with oil tycoon, T. Boone Pickens, at a casino-resort this morning, where the two were expected to discuss energy policy. However, the photo op of the men, smiling and shaking hands, became a bit tense after a reporter asked Obama how it felt to be meeting with someone who "tore down" John Kerry in 2004.

"You know, he has a lot longer track record than that," Obama said as he defended Pickens adding, "he's a legendary entrepreneur and, you know, one of the things that I think we have to unify the country around is having an intelligent energy policy."

There wasn't a peep out of Pickens, though, who stood next to Obama and smiled awkwardly.

Pickens reportedly donated about $3 million to the "Swift Boat Vets for Truth" group, which funded the "swift boat" ads lambasting Kerry in 2004.

Pickens, who initially supported Rudy Giuliani's candidacy, has has become a self-described "surprising environmentalist" and has not endorsed Obama or McCain.

The Obama campaign said Pickens initiated today's meeting in Reno; Pickens met with John McCain last week.

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by d55may August 18, 2008 11:14 PM EDT
Shame on the man above who brought into the conversation John McCain and his first wife. Shame on you. What happened thirty years ago has no place in 2008. The man has admitted that his greatest moral failure is his first divorce. God forgives, so will I.
OBAMA IS A HYPOCRITe, says he lives his life quote "Whatever I do, I do for the least of these, DOES THAT INCLUDE ALL THOSE ABORTED BABIES?
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by mydiatribe August 18, 2008 4:43 PM EDT
Honestly could care less where Obama gets his ideas from any idea is an improvement over that vague hope and change rabble!
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by wellhell3 August 18, 2008 12:41 PM EDT
Boy little Obscamma deflected that one, didn''t he. It''s what he does best. Lies, deflects, evades, backs totally out of whatever he said....

Real little prize scammer there.
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by jongood53 August 18, 2008 11:59 AM EDT
"Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D."

"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn''t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."

"It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living." - Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
posted by Kaelinda at 04:01 AM :
Aug 18, 2008

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Yo, KuntaKinte, what commune was you dwelling in....Better yet, what brand of dope was you smoking when the above walked into your life??
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by acarponzo August 18, 2008 11:02 AM EDT
Entreprenuer? Intelligent energy policy? Where do the profits come from? To the entreprenuer, free markets, OK! Government subsidy? OK too! T.Boone, you are awfully slick. It will be interesting to see how this plays out with the pundits and on the realtime poll at http://www.bop-o-rama.com. Here is chuckle for the day. "The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you."
--Charles Dickens
Go! T. Boone, Go!
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by realpatriot1 August 18, 2008 8:43 AM EDT
Mcvent,

Keep hope alive knuckle dragger!
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by wilder5121 August 18, 2008 8:02 AM EDT
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans'' rights, said: ''I have been following John McCain''s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is - deceit.

''When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.

''Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.

''This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.''

One old friend of the McCains said: ''Carol always insists she is not bitter, but I think that''s a defence mechanism. She feels deeply in his debt because in return for her agreement to a divorce, he promised to pay for her medical care for the rest of her life.''

But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel - even by the standards of modern politics.

''McCain is the classic opportunist. He%u2019s always reaching for attention and glory. After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.''
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by kaelinda August 18, 2008 7:01 AM EDT
"Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D."

"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn''t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."

"It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living." - Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
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by mcvent August 18, 2008 1:53 AM EDT
I see Obama and McCain are tied and get this Obama is now advertising here in California...

As I have told you all Obama is going to lose.

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by mcvent August 18, 2008 1:51 AM EDT
God Bless the Swift Boat Group they help make American a better country...

Some great American''s there not afraid to stand up the Democrats hate machine as noted by the ugly posts here.
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