Obama talks energy with man who funded 2004 attacks on Kerry

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama met Sunday with oil tycoon turned alternative energy advocate T. Boone Pickens, who funded devastating attacks on 2004 Democratic White House pick John Kerry.

"He's got a lot longer track record than that," the current Democratic presidential candidate said when asked how it felt to be meeting the man who "swiftboated" Kerry's campaign, as the two headed into a brief tete a tete at a resort hotel in Reno, Nevada.

"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," Obama said.

Pickens in 2004 donated millions to a shadowy group of Vietnam War veterans calling themselves "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," who ran ads questioning...