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Obama Meets With T. Boone Pickens, Avoids Swift Boat Question (flag)
www.huffingtonpost.com — RENO, Nev. — Democrat Barack Obama met Sunday with Texas oil baron and longtime conservative activist T. Boone Pickens to discuss strategies for developing alternative energy. The presidential hopeful praised Pickens as a "legendary entrepreneur" and deflected a question about the billionaire's role in helping to fund a television ad campaign that undermined John Kerry, the 2004 ...

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Can we please not throw another election?
The Sideshow — ... Here's what we mean about double-standards: Why was it a big outrage when Hillary gave an interview to Scaife and his paper, but Obama singing the praises of the man who funded the Swift-boat Liars gets barely a whisper? Yeah, I know, the primaries are over and we have to keep McCain out of the White House, but can anyone tell me again why Obama was supposed to be so much better than Hillary? Was there really any reason ever to think so? And why was Obama so much more willing to go for Hillary's throat than he is to go after McCain? Has he so easily forgotten the word ...

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