Idiot. Bonehead. Poor soul. Loser.
We've combed through the news over the past year and picked 15 of the people who qualify for this unfortunate distinction.
Over the next few days we'll break them into 3 polls with the top 2 vote-getters from each round moving to the semi-finals. By New Years Day we should have our winner.
Here are your nominees for Loser of 2008. Round 1
Rev. Jeremiah Wright: He caused a stir for his anti-American comments and almost sunk Barack Obama's political campaign.
Joe "the plumber" Wurzelbacher: Election schlub had his 15 seconds of fame. As a footnote, he's already released a book.
Brett Favre: Retired tearfully. Then came back. Got traded and had his worst season ever. Soon to enjoy an off season surgery.
Hillary Clinton: She was the clear Democratic favorite since 2005. This election was hers to loose. And she did, badly.
Miley Cyrus: Disney's Montana good girl almost derails her career over topless photos.
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I'm with the majority: Joe the Plumber.
Although to be fair, he was a loser before 2008.
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Bernie Madoff and his investors and Lehman Brothers and their investors. Good hustle gang. Try to do better next time.
hillary clinton .. a woman who thought that expediency and compromise was the way to win .. a woman who thought that her own accomplishments paled in comparison to her husbands .. a woman who diluted her personal integrity behind a wall of silence about her husbands infidelity .. and in so doing doomed herself to irrelevance when she applied for the position of most powerful leader of the free world ..
hillary clinton .. the poster girl for the inevitable sliding scale of situational ethics ..
I'd like to write in Rod marinelli, Head coach of the detroit lions.
Led his team to an 0-16 season, Got Fired, And you know there's no way in HELL anyone else is ever going to hire him. He couldn't get a job coaching a High School team now...
Poor guy.
Voting for Round 1 closes at midnight, so vote now and often.