Obama Meets With T. Boone Pickens
(CBS)
(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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See all 52 CommentsJohn Kerry owes a generation of Vietnam era servicemen not merely an apology for betraying them in time of war. He owes them his own exile in shame.
Posted by oaklynne at 03:26 PM : Aug 17, 2008
I can only stress the word "genuine" in your post.
Some other well-advertised military records are certainly less genuine ...
Posted by ragnar30066 at 03:16 PM : Aug 17, 2008
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That''s right! We only support Republican troops and Veterans. If they don''t agree with us they can go to hell. And they should expect to have their service degraded and torn down. It is all meaningless unless you believe as Republicans do.
The audacity of John Kerry that he actually cared about the troops and has continued to give top priority to veterans for all these years.
He is a Democrat, tear him down and while you are at it, tear down all those who served with him.
And build up Corsi, an educated liar who wrote the swiftboat book, but was never in any military service.
You must be feeding at the same Corsi trough as the rest of the Repigs.
My new slogan:
''If you can trust a Republican, who can''t you trust?''
Posted by kazoodan
How stupid is that post? I guess everything Dimwitocrat Clintoon was saying about your messiah Dimwitocrat Nobama don''t count! LMFAO!
They are lying scum!
John McCain instead has ran a lousy campaign staying away from the issues by focusing on young white girls like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
The Republicans should be ashamed of their nominee.
Yes! An important point is that Americans recognized our need and demanded change and sought a President who could lead again, and drafted Obama to run. Obama is not calling for change, he is answering the call.
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Please, let us get one thing absolutely clear....For about this, there can be no debate:
America did not "draft[] Obama to run."
The fascist who run the DNC disenfranchised a sufficient number of DemoTard lemming votes in the primary so they could use their secret "Super Delegate" network to install Sen. NObama.
We''ve seen this exact tactic used every time a dictator has ever come to power.
I have told you folks time and again, we are witnessing the Libtards doing exactly what they do best.....Working to destroy America as built, so they can implement the "CHANGE" they seek in rebuilding the NEW AMERICA....
The MARXIST AMERICA that all DemoTards dream of.
John McCain instead has ran a lousy campaign staying away from the issues by focusing on young white girls like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
The Republicans should be ashamed of their nominee.
Posted by whitemale08
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Yo whitewatermelon dude, it''s your boy who shows the world how he lacks the stones to go head to head in a townhall style debate with this feeble old man.
You know, a townhall style debate that favors the more experienced, quicker witted, and most American of the two??
Your boy can''t do a real time debate, simply because he''s a 50%-American at best, empty suit, who was installed by the fascist leadership of the DNC after they disenfranchised millions of votes in the primaries so their secret "Super Delegate" squad could do their bidding.
Posted by mtracy9 at 06:48 PM : Aug 17, 2008
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This has to be one of the stupidest posts I have seen in some time.
Are you one of those foreigners the DNC is paying to post this ka,ka??
You wouldn''t know a real Texan until they left you wearing your AZZ for a hat.
Posted by JonGood53 at 06:53 PM
The fact is, Obama is so far above McCain, both in intelligence and class.
I wish they would debate, McCain will walk off in a hissy fit!
The MARXIST AMERICA that all DemoTards dream of.
Posted by JonGood53 at 06:45 PM : Aug 17, 2008
Do you live on another planet?
Bush has done a fine job in his attempts to destroy America, morally, financially and economically. The America "as built" has been desecrated by Bush and his clan.
You want to talk "New America" look up PNAC on the internet and see who and how many of your criminal friends worked for a "New America"!!!
Idiot!!!
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Posted by JonGood53 at 06:45 PM : Aug 17, 2008--
McCain? John McCain? win a debate against the "One" hahaa don''t make me laugh.
John McCain just wants some of that shining light to be shared with him and besides those "town hall" debates are just full of "swift boaters" and "flag pin" enthusiasts trying to make news.
You sound like one of the "bitter Hillary clingers" anyways...Just get over it and "move on" to the other side of the aisle where the "Republican Suicide Bombers" live.
And I remember those debates between Hillary and Obama and she got her butt kicked everytime. No one can hang with the "rhetorical skills" of Barrack Obama.
That''s why he''s the nomineee and you''re just a piece of white trailer trash who can''t think for himself.
I wish they would debate, McCain will walk off in a hissy fit!
Posted by liberalme at 07:38 PM :
Aug 17, 2008
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Typical libtard, paying nothing but lip service with your wishes.
Fact remains, it is your boy who has tucked tail and run like a little scaredy cat every time the old man has challenged this 50%-American to a real time debate.
We all know a real American like John would be able to expose your boy for exactly what he is in such a debate.
Bush has done a fine job in his attempts to destroy America, morally, financially and economically. The America "as built" has been desecrated by Bush and his clan.
You want to talk "New America" look up PNAC on the internet and see who and how many of your criminal friends worked for a "New America"!!!
Idiot!!!
Posted by liberalme at 07:42 PM : Aug 17, 2008
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This folks is exactly what you can expect when voting for Sen. NObama.
Just empty lip service and name calling designed to stampede the emotions of all you ffffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllliiiinnnnnggggssss founded left wing pinkos.
ROTFLMGTBO!!!!
We all know a real American like John would be able to expose your boy for exactly what he is in such a debate.
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Posted by JonGood53 at 08:24 PM : Aug 17, 2008--
John McCain is not an American, he''s Panamanian Manchurian candidate who has a "hot-head" chip planted in his head to perform a "Republican Suicide Bomber" attack.
ssss founded left wing pinkos.
ROTFLMGTBO!!!!
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Posted by JonGood53 at 08:28 PM : Aug 17, 2008--
And what John McCain is is a "hot head" that shoots his mouth off in a crowded theater.
John McCain just wants some of that shining light to be shared with him and besides those "town hall" debates are just full of "swift boaters" and "flag pin" enthusiasts trying to make news.
Posted by whitemale08 at 08:19 PM : Aug 17, 2008
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Yo WhiteWatermelonDude, I truly do appreciate you and Libtardme making it so easy for me to show how you left wing pinkos offer nothing more than lip service designed to stampede your lemming kinfolks emotions.
After all, everyone knows it''s your boy who has tucked tail and run like a little scaredy cat from this feeble old man''s challenge to town hall debates.
Dan Rather lost his job for trying to "swiftboat" our President with nothing more than forged documents and lies.
The veterans who were actually on the boats in Vietnam at the same time HoChiMinh Kerry was over there, managed to "Swiftboat" that pinko and none of them were "DanRathered".
ROTFLMGTBO!!!!
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Posted by JonGood53 at 08:33 PM : Aug 17, 2008
Hey Jonnytrash, I just showed to you how your boy "hot head" doesn''t have any issues he wants to debate just put in petty idiots like you who want to talk about "flag pins", "Paris Hilton", "Britney Spears", and Celebusluts.
And like Obama said in Ohio "I ain''t got time for this mess". And he''s right.
ROTFLMGTBO!!!!
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Posted by JonGood53 at 08:37 PM : Aug 17, 2008--
I did think about it,
and till this day Bush never refuted the charges.
ROTFLMGTBO!!!!
ROTFLMGTBO!!!!
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Posted by JonGood53 at 08:42 PM : Aug 17, 2008--
And I would rather watch the Olympics then to watch John "hot head" McCain embarrass himself and this country over and over again in front of the whole world.
and till this day Bush never refuted the charges.
Posted by whitemale08 at 08:42 PM : Aug 17, 2008
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Yo Whitewatermelon dude.....All charges were automatically "refuted" when Dan Rather and all of CBS was shown to be the lying frauds they are/were.
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Posted by JonGood53 at 08:46 PM : Aug 17, 2008--
Yo, Jonnypastytrash,
All the charges were refuted by Bush''s surrogates but not by Bush himself...the same way you said that Kerry himself didn''t refute the charges only his surrogates did.
So which is it? huh? Jonnypastytrash.
And like Obama said in Ohio "I ain''t got time for this mess". And he''s right.
Posted by whitemale08 at 08:38 PM : Aug 17, 2008
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ROTFLMGTBO!!!
Thanks for revealing to all this is the best you and your boy Sen. NObama have....
Name calling is all you got, and a promise of lots and lots of largess in exchange for your vote is all your boy Sen. NObama has.
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Posted by JonGood53 at 08:51 PM : Aug 17, 2008--
namecalling? namecalling? haha lol...
You the one started with the name calling.
Posted by whitemale08 at 08:50 PM : Aug 17, 2008
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Yo WhiteWatermelonDude, there were no "charges" against G.W. Bush, just Dan Rather attempting to peddle a big lie and some fraudulent documents. Wake up, once it was exposed, there was no refuting required.
And,I didn''t say squat about HoChiMinhKerry, other than he was obviously unable to show them to be the liars Dan Rather was proven to be.
You the one started with the name calling.
Posted by whitemale08 at 08:53 PM : Aug 17, 2008
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Just like everything else you have offered this board....
Long on lip service, extremely short on proof.
Even though I''m sure words such as "moron" "ignorant A*S*S" and more cross my mind when dealing with you hyphenated-Americans, you can''t find one example of me making such references about you.
This clown missed the vote. We can move forward with similar ideas, but different people.
Not surprising he just smiled awkwardly. What did they expect him to say? "I used to be a lying slimeball, but I''m much better now...?"
And,I didn''''t say squat about HoChiMinhKerry, other than he was obviously unable to show them to be the liars Dan Rather was proven to be.
Posted by JonGood53 at 09:00 PM : Aug 17, 2008
Does bush has a DD214 ?
I did not think so...
Posted by JonGood53 at 08:46 PM : Aug 17, 2008
1972 Year that Bush walked away from his pilot duties in the Texas National Guard, Nearly two years before his six-year obligation was up.
$3,500 Reward a group of veterans offered in 2000 for anyone who could confirm Bush''s Alabama guard service.
600-700 Number of guardsmen who were in Bush''s unit during that period.
0 Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with information about Bush''s guard service.
0 Number of minutes that President Bush, Vice-President *** Cheney, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the assistant Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, the former chairman of the Defence Policy Board, Richard Perle, and the White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove - the main proponents of the war in Iraq -served in combat (combined).
0 Number of principal civilian or Pentagon staff members who planned the war who have immediate family members serving in uniform in Iraq.
8 Number of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives who have a child serving in the military.
10 Number of days that the Pentagon spent investigating a soldier who had called the President "a joke" in a letter to the editor of a Newspaper.
Some great American''s there not afraid to stand up the Democrats hate machine as noted by the ugly posts here.
As I have told you all Obama is going to lose.
"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
''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.''
Keep hope alive knuckle dragger!
--Charles Dickens
Go! T. Boone, Go!
"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??
Real little prize scammer there.
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