Letter: Climate protestors should target Manchin, not Biden - The Daily Freeman
Letter: Climate protestors should target Manchin, not Biden - Daily Freeman
With a banner headline, the Kingston Freeman reported ( front page, Sept. 18) that thousands of climate protesters in New York City “aimed their wrath” at President Biden, demanding he do more, implying he’s done little.
Poor Joe Biden, definitely in the “can’t win” department.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the press, a New York Times business reporter extols the accomplishments of Biden’s 2022 “expansive climate bill.”
One wonders if the protestors, whose goals all right-minded citizens share, need a map to West Virginia and Joe Manchin’s office. That’s where fingers ought to be pointed and wrath aimed, not at a President who, despite a climate-immobile Congress, qualifies as a climate change hero.
Richard Gilbert,
Rhinebeck.
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