"Obama, conservative activist hold alternative energy talks
RENO - Democrat Barack Obama met yesterday with Texas oil baron and longtime conservative activist T. Boone Pickens to discuss strategies for developing alternative energy.
The presidential hopeful praised Pickens, a native of Oklahoma, as a "legendary entrepreneur" and deflected a question about the billionaire's role in helping to fund a television ad campaign that undermined John F. Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee.
"You know, he's got a longer track record than that," Obama told reporters when asked about Pickens's association with the ads by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, Pickens spent $3 million to help bankroll the Swift Boat organization, a group tied to supporters of President Bush that ran television ads questioning Kerry's record as a swift boat commander during the Vietnam War. The ads were believed to have damaged Kerry in several battleground states, contributing to his narrow loss to Bush.
Today, Pickens is bankrolling a much different kind of campaign. A critic of US dependence on oil and a champion of wind power and other alternative energy forms, he has vowed to spend $58 million to promote his "Pickens Plan," which calls for the United States to generate 22 percent of its electricity through wind and other sources.
Pickens met with McCain in Colorado last week to discuss his plan and requested a similar meeting with Obama (AP)."
Fuck Pickens and his globalist agenda!!!
You know, if these assholes hadn't lied for so long, maybe I'd cut 'em a break; however, we are WAY PAST THAT NOW!
