Reading the Thursday letter “Beer diplomacy not good example” was one of the best laughs I’ve had in quite some time!

The writer stated: “So now we have video of our president drinking on the job. Good message to send to our young.”

I wonder where the concern was for sending good messages to our young, when Vice President Dick Cheney told Sen. Patrack Leahy to “**** yourself” on the floor of the Senate.

Wasn’t it the Republicans that said Bush (an admitted alcoholic) was the man they’d most like to have a beer with?

Where was the concern for sending good messages to our children when the “Decider” stated the following to the 300th graduating class of Yale University?

“And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. A Yale degree is worth a lot, as I often remind Dick Cheney who studied here, but left a little early. So now we know, if you graduate from Yale, you become president. If you drop out, you get to be vice president.”

In case there are some who are unaware, Cheney was forced to leave Yale University because his penchant for late-night beer drinking exceeded his devotion to his studies, and he is one of the small number of Americans who can count two drunk driving busts on his record.

Where was the concern over the message Bush, Cheney and Rush Limbaugh (to name a few Republicans) sent by dodging their service to their country? What concern was expressed regarding Bush’s “youthful indiscretion” of snorting cocaine?

Where was the concern when Dick Cheney drank beer and then shot his friend in the face and didn’t report it until the following day?

I’ve never met a group of people more hell-bent on displaying their ignorance than the Republicans.

Kevin Wruck

Marysville