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Obama Meets With 'Swift Boats' Bankroller T. Boone Pickens
RENO, Nev. -- At the Summit Casino-Resort Sunday morning, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., met with oil man T. Boone Pickens, now a proponent of weaning the United States from foreign fuel who was a funder of the Swift Boat Veterans...
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Obama Meets With 'Swift Boats' Bankroller T. Boone Pickens
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... the same track that we are going, that we are giving our wealth away. We are funding both sides of the war on terror. "We are going to be, over the long term, putting enormous pressure on ordinary families here in America who just aren't going to be able to afford, you know, skyrocketing gasoline prices and home heating prices," Obama continued. "So, this is one of those issues that, I think, should unify the country -- and that is what we are going to be talking about." Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/obama-m... I'm one DU'er who thinks right now ...

Obama Meets With 'Swift Boats' Bankroller T. Boone Pickens
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... the same track that we are going, that we are giving our wealth away. We are funding both sides of the war on terror. "We are going to be, over the long term, putting enormous pressure on ordinary families here in America who just aren't going to be able to afford, you know, skyrocketing gasoline prices and home heating prices," Obama continued. "So, this is one of those issues that, I think, should unify the country -- and that is what we are going to be talking about." Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/obama-m... I'm one DU'er who thinks right now ...

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