Not carrying signs

Protests from the left and the right were staged to coincide with Barack Obama’s first presidential visit to Oklahoma, but the Sierra Club was not among those protesting Obama’s sudden love of hydrocarbons and pipelines. We regret the error of naming the Sierra Club as a participant in the protests, which we did in a Wednesday editorial. The protests seemed as hollow as Obama’s remarks in Cushing, but it was the only opportunity for local protests of the president’s environmental, energy and fiscal policies while Obama was actually here. Such eager opportunism reminds us of the local TV meteorologists who haven’t had much to do since the August wildfires until the emergence of typical spring weather in recent days.

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