Well, they both avoided the draft

Here's a rare entry that involves both baseball and politics.

Gov. Bill Richardson is coming clean on his draft record -- the baseball draft, that is, admitting that his claim to have been a pick of the Kansas City A's in 1966 was untrue.

For nearly four decades, Richardson, often mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential candidate, has maintained he was drafted by the Kansas City Athletics.

The claim was included in a brief biography released when Richardson successfully ran for Congress in 1982. A White House news release in 1997 mentioned it when he was about to be named U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. And several news organizations, including The Associated Press, have reported it as fact over the
years.

But an investigation by the Albuquerque Journal found no record of Richardson being drafted by the A's, who have since moved to Oakland, or any other team.

When you hear Republicans crowing about this, see how many mention another prominent politician who made a claim about something that didn't happen to polish his resume when he said, “I put in my time, proudly so.”

Bush apologists will argue that it's not the same thing. And they're right, it's not. One is a much more significant misrepresentation of events. Bill Richardson's not being drafted by the Kansas City A's doesn't make him morally unfit to govern New Mexico. But George Bush's not meeting his National Guard obligations makes him morally unfit to send troops to war.