Richardson’s not-so-great boast
For nearly 40 years, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s résumé included the claim that he had been drafted to play major league baseball. That ended about a year ago when Richardson was suitably humiliated by a skeptical reporter at a New Mexico newspaper who found it was fiction.
In a recent Richardson puff piece in the Rocky Mountain News (“Richardson’s plus,” April 27), syndicated columnist Frank Gomez repeated another of Richardson’s boasts: that he has been nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize. That may be true, but so was Crips street gang founder Tookie Williams, according to published reports before the State of California executed him in 2005. Nobel Peace Prize rules are so liberal that there are likely a million or so people in the world (professors and the like) eligible to nominate.
Only a dedicated self-promoter like Richardson would demean real Nobel Prize winners by bragging about his nomination(s).
Jacqueline Tumbarella, Littleton
Ms. Tumbarella,
There are no "bodybags" associated with Bill Richardson. Bush has 3K (9/11) and 1.5K (Katrina). No to mention more than 3K innocent troops (sitting ducks/targets) killed needlessly and senselessly in BodyBagDad, Iraq-NAM.
President Boy-Gorege once "boasted", he would have deployed to Vietnam if his unit had been sent there. Lies! His Texas Air National Guard unit was borne as a Vietnam sanctuary for rich white guys. They only deploying these "panty-waists" were going to do, was to a local bar or "bong-shop".
A leopard doesn't change his spots. When Vietnam broke-out, Boy-George broke for Barbara's dress-tails. When America was attacked on 9/11, in the east, Boy-George broke northwest with Air Force 1 for a missile silo, which I'm sure he shared with UBL.
Posted by jjxant on May 22, 2007 07:23 AM