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Obama Meets With T. Boone Pickens, Avoids Swift Boat Question

The Sideshow found this 8/19/2008 on 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 ...