Obama Flip Flops On Swiftboater, Decides He Loves T. Boone Pickens

Obama met with T. Boone Pickens (of wind power rent-seeking fame) this weekend and decided that he loves him despite Pickens’ funding of the Swiftboat Veterans and their devastating attack on Senator Kerry’s 2004 campaign.

RENO, Nev. — Barack Obama on Sunday met with — and defended — one of the primary financers of the group that was perhaps most responsible for sinking Sen. John F. Kerry’s 2004 presidential bid.
Obama huddled privately with T. Boone Pickens in a small conference room in the bowels of a casino hotel to discuss the legendary Texas energy trader’s much-publicized energy policy proposal.
But while the two men posed for pictures before the meeting, Obama was asked how it felt to be meeting with the man “who tore down” Kerry’s campaign.
Pickens, who gave $3 million to the anti-Kerry 527 group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, smiled awkwardly as Obama fielded the question.
“Ah, you know, he’s got a lot longer track record than that,” Obama said. “He’s been doing, ah, 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.”

Translation: “This guy is rich and he wants lots and lots of government help to fill his pockets with government enviro-pork so I’m gonna be nice to him even if he is a big, nasty swiftboater.”