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 CommentsOBAMA 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?
Real little prize scammer there.
"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??
--Charles Dickens
Go! T. Boone, Go!
Keep hope alive knuckle dragger!
''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.''
"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
As I have told you all Obama is going to lose.
Some great American''s there not afraid to stand up the Democrats hate machine as noted by the ugly posts here.
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.
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...
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...?"
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.
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.
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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.
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 08:46 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.
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