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By: David Freddoso
Online Opinion Editor
10/09/09 10:56 AM EDT

From a reader:

I just went to this link and, in the "Type your nominee here!" field, entered "Barack Obama."  The winner of this Nissan-sponsored promotion will actually receive one official vote for the Heisman award as sort of the people's choice.

You can actually go back and vote once each day between now and the Heisman award in December.




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parky

Oct 9, 2009

Rumor has it BO is going to pitch the first game of the World Series!!!!

 

Oct 9, 2009

Cy Young Award, then!

 

j.j

Oct 9, 2009

In anticipation Pres Obama is to become the quarterback for the Lions, and the super bowl trophy is being awarded on Sunday the 11th of October.

 

Jared Marof

Oct 9, 2009

Is there any way to nominate Obama for godhood?

 

elle

Oct 9, 2009

How about the Grand POSER award. Obummer sux in every way possible.

 

RR

Oct 9, 2009

I hear BHO can rub his tummy and pat his head at the same time!!

 

oceanguy

Oct 9, 2009

Don't forget the Naismith, Dick Howswer,Hobey Baker Memorial Award, and the Tewaaraton Trophies.

He will save us all.

 

Gaius

Oct 9, 2009

Spread the word.

Let's put Obama over the top and bring home the Heisman. It will be an honor for every American.

 

Joe

Oct 9, 2009

plɹoʍ oɹɐzzıq oʇ ǝɯoɔlǝʍ

 

Colleen Harland

Oct 9, 2009

nomination of BO for Heissman

 

ANON

Oct 9, 2009

here

Just testing html links :)

 

Clyde

Oct 9, 2009

I cast my vote for Barack Obama, QB, Washington (DC). First time I voted for him. Probably the last time, too.

 

George

Oct 9, 2009

In fact, why not just start nominating or signing up Barack Obama for every contest out there in hopes of scoring even more victories for his holiness.

 

Baby M

Oct 9, 2009

Now if he wins the Publisher's Clearing House Giveaway, I'll really be impressed.

 

whatever

Oct 9, 2009

just wondering if any of you listen to your ignorance? can you hear it? the rest of the world can. shut up.

 

MrsD

Oct 9, 2009

Did anyone wonder what we are doing with the moon?
Obama will soon be named Lunar King.

 

TW

Oct 9, 2009

"just wondering if any of you listen to your ignorance? can you hear it? the rest of the world can. shut up."

Oh come on, you know very well that this prize was stolen from Beyonce.

 

Narniaman

Oct 9, 2009

When voting for Obama, please add that his school is the Washington Taxers

 

Lincoln1

Oct 9, 2009

Ahh...Whatever, we have been listning to The O's and those Kool Aid drinkers ignorance for the last 10 months - more if you want to count the trip to the Throne.....as he would say...Let me make this perfectly clear, I am ignorant and yes, the world can acknowledge that also......Thank you, thank you very much....Elvis has left the building

 

Matt

Oct 9, 2009

Breaking - Obama will be Golfing for the Gold Medal at the 2012 London Olympics. It was just announced that one of the USA Golf Olympic Team members was kicked off the team to make room for Obama. Citing executive order 25098-34a, Obama may force ably remove any member of a USA national competitive team to place himself as one of the members of that team if he feels that his godlike status could bring the gold medal home. Just kidding obviously - but why not?

 

Doug

Oct 9, 2009

MrsD

Oct 9, 2009

Did anyone wonder what we are doing with the moon?
Obama will soon be named Lunar King.
-----------------------------------
They Placed a "Obama Chia Head" on the Moon. Now if we can just figure out a way for a One Way Flight for him to go there and Receive it?

 

Marie

Oct 9, 2009

I wrote Barrack Obama in for Halloween Day Parade Queen. It is usually awarded to the cutest toddler in costume but, heh, were talking about Obama!

 

corndog

Oct 9, 2009

RACISM!!! ESPN is now filtering Obama.

Clearly, ESPN wants the terrorists to win.

 

Angie S.

Oct 9, 2009

I just voted.. thanks!! Too funny!

 

Trooper

Oct 9, 2009

Nero fiddled as Rome burned. America jokes while a Judas betrays our country. There is a similarity.

 

joe democrat

Oct 9, 2009

thanks Pres Obama, for not being bush

 

Joe

Oct 9, 2009

He's already a lock for the NL Cy Young, he threw out the first pitch at the All-Star game in St. Louis this summer.

 

Ciz

Oct 9, 2009

Unfortunately the vote for Obama will be filtered out so as to never be seen.

It would be more impactful to find an award that the votes can not be ignored.

 

J33P

Oct 9, 2009

I thought he won it last year?

 

avery

Oct 9, 2009

They are going to carve the Moon into a face of our Dear Leader.SO the whole world can look up on it.

 

BK

Oct 9, 2009

My husband will really be upset if he wins the NHRA Funnny Car Championship.

 

Darkhelmet

Oct 9, 2009

I've heard Barack Obama can kick Chuck Norris' butt.

 

justasimplepatriot

Oct 9, 2009

How about an Oscar - Greatest impersonation of a moderate during a political campaign!

 

SubiGT

Oct 9, 2009

Newsflash!!!! Worlds largest chunk of coal headed for South Dakota, Mount Rushmore to be expanded a great taxpayer expense.

 

Mason

Oct 9, 2009

For Miss America!

 

Tex

Oct 9, 2009

My Heisman vote was for:
Barack Obama, D, Kenya

 

Tantor

Oct 9, 2009

If Obama doesn't get the Heisman, then the racists have won.

 

SCOTT

Oct 9, 2009

I just heard BO won the gold medal in the decathlon event at the 2016 Olympic games in Rio.

Can anyone confirm?

 

tballard

Oct 9, 2009

As much time as he is on Prime Time television, I think he should win an Emmy.

 

Pups McCann

Oct 9, 2009

CNNFACT CHECK: Barrack Obama was not the model for the football figure on the Heisman Trophy although he should be.

 

junglejim123

Oct 9, 2009

Barack will win the gold in mens figure skating in Vancouver...He'll twist and turn, jump and spin on the ice for you. all guaranteed by billionaire George Soros..Go 4 Gold with O b a m a

 

GatorGirl

Oct 9, 2009

As a Gator, I normally would vote for Tebow, but Zero INTENDS to be a better college QB than Tebow, and really, that's all that counts!

 

Tony

Oct 9, 2009

Support the effort to win the Heisman for Obama by joining our group on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups.php#/group.php?gid=151041074658

 

uncledan

Oct 9, 2009

I nominated him for the prize. I hope he wins that AND an Academy Award for his excellence in film!

 

Tommy Telephone

Oct 9, 2009

Imagine joyous glee, and the tears that will be shed, when the Cy Young is won by a pitcher who throws like a girl.

 

rasqual

Oct 9, 2009

Here's a one-click vote for Obama at the site. Pass it on!

http://sn.im/sfcip

 

Johnny Mojo

Oct 9, 2009

He deserves the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate!

 

Obama for Everything! Yes we can!

Oct 9, 2009

You have to be an angry right wing nut not to vote for Obama for Heisman.

 

jlmealer

Oct 9, 2009

I thought Al Gore's Nobel Prize scandal was bad. This one certainly takes the cake! So much for the validity of the Novbel Peace Prize... We now KNOW it is a joke.

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Heisman should be renamed "The Obama"

Oct 9, 2009

The Heisman trophy should be named "The Obama" and he should win it every year. The trophy needs to be redesigned from a football player carrying a ball, with his knee lifted and arm extended to something else. Anybody have ideas?

 

observer

Oct 9, 2009

this is actually a great idea - if we could make that happen then the nobel prize is completely diminished!

 

NJK

Oct 9, 2009

Miss America!

 

TimothyJ

Oct 9, 2009

Let's nominate him for Algore's emmy or oscar or whatever they call it now. He's been on night time tv more than the stars of the CSI program.

 

jon

Oct 9, 2009

hey i voted but i dont see barack on the leaderboards??

 

rlc3825

Oct 9, 2009

His speed is inhibited by his smoking habit. He buys his cigarettes off shore to avoid the taxes that he assessed while in Illinois.

 

Wonderman

Oct 9, 2009

Obama = god
Bush = devil

And thus is the sorry state of progressive politics in the Western World. Can't you smell the sulphur? Or did a sadsack leftist professor eat too much garlic?

 

OldSchool

Oct 9, 2009

Too bad BO didn't help the Nationals this past season... With a Cy Young winner they could have finished way better than 54 games back.

 

Oct 9, 2009

I don't see Knighthood here.

 

jjs

Oct 9, 2009

I nominate him for "President of the United States of America". The person we have in now realy sucks....

 

Your Mamma

Oct 9, 2009

Obama is more of a leader than Adolph Bush ever was, and more of a human than most posters here...

 

Oct 9, 2009

OK, I nominate Your Mamma for the nebel peace prize! She will do something in the future I'm sure to make up for past mistakes....

 

TxRnchGirl

Oct 9, 2009

CBS is reporting that he is practising walking on water repeating "King Me". And yes his infomercial that play a month ago is up for an emmy. He was nominated by Chris The Thrill Matthews.

 

mle

Oct 9, 2009

THIS JUST IN! IT WAS ALL A TERRIBLE MISTAKE---He actually won the Jenny Craig 'NO BELLY PRIZE'!

 

HK

Oct 10, 2009

When it comes to the Noble Peace Prize, I hear that God is really pissed off with BO's win...but it's only cause he's jealous!!!!!

 

theguyfromplt

Oct 10, 2009

HaHa! - Yeah, I think Miss America is a GREAT idea!!!

 

old hickory

Oct 10, 2009

And why shouldn't he win the heisman?
he's so dreamy and just look at his abs.

 

iTOLDu

Oct 10, 2009

Now, let be clear. Barry will be the perfect choice. Vote daily. His plans are in the works for next seasons Dancing w/the Stars.

 

minutemanaz

Oct 10, 2009

I hear next seasons American-idol the only songs that will be sung will be the song in the school that the kids are singing.....HMMMMMM HMMMMMM HMMMMM Bho.

 

FirstCavTommy

Oct 10, 2009

ESPN obviously isn't counting Obama votes. The last place guy on the leaderboard has 81 votes. I know I have voted for him at least 10 times. So sad he won't win. He is really deserving.

 

Indy8Ball

Oct 10, 2009

Here's a great editorial cartoon by Indy's Gary Varvel regarding Obama and "winning" awards. http://blogs.indystar.com/varvelblog/archives/2009/10/more_awards.html

 

flippenphil

Oct 11, 2009

Obama was award 1.4 million$ along with his noble peace prize .... sad.

8 months ago he gave a fed grant to chicago hospital, and mrs.obama was given a 4yr ~820k commission pay raise... now this....
this is 2 million dollars in 9 months of office to this family... and everyone attacked Bush for making a few thousand dollars on stocks!

 

flippenphil

Oct 11, 2009

do they still have MTV TRL?
vote for him there LOL

 

Forthebirds

Oct 11, 2009

I use this paper to line my bird cages. Defecating on it and most of the sub human war mongers is most appropriate. Take a lesson from the Klan. In the 1920's when the Klan fell out of favor hundreds of Republicans lost their careers. Klan vs. Nazi's.....no difference.

 

kin'rus

Oct 11, 2009

Thank YOU BUSH, for NOT being Obama!!!!

 

okgiblets

Oct 11, 2009

At least we had 8 years of "honor and respect" before this "joker" came along!
Bush, We truly miss you!

 

OhioMichGirl

Oct 12, 2009

This just goes to show that the Nobel Committee is completely nuts and their opinions are completely meaningless!! I'm sure he could use the money being a "po' boy from the south side of Chicago."

 

LR

Oct 12, 2009

JUST WHAT WE NEED ,WHY NOT WE SHOULD NOMINATE HIM FOR AN EMMY NEXT

 

Sod White

Oct 12, 2009

History in the making, first time I can recall there being awarded an Affirmative Action Nobel Prize. Now we can help him win the Affirmative Action Heisman, and all it takes is a vote a day, folks.

So let's all get together and make it happen people, after all, when the recipient of the Nobel is fighting a war on two fronts, who knows what else is possible.

 

Daniel

Oct 13, 2009

There's a facebook group w/ over 1,400 members giving it their best shot:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=151041074658

 

Abner

Oct 13, 2009

"The Heisman trophy should be named "The Obama" and he should win it every year. The trophy needs to be redesigned from a football player carrying a ball, with his knee lifted and arm extended to something else. Anybody have ideas?"

Yes...how about a man with his head up his rectum..and he has a window in his stomach so he can see while his head is there.

 

Michael D Chicago

Oct 13, 2009

BO is a product of Chicago Politics and due to all of his wonderful abilities I recommend we change the name on the Chicago Bears to Chicago Obamas. I think we could also chnage the name of Lake Shore Drive to BO Lane and this should be done on the special day that is set for Barak Obama Day!

 

Brandon

Oct 13, 2009

I think he once wore a red shirt when he was a freshman, so he still has one year of eligibility left.

 

G.Bush

Oct 13, 2009

Do you miss me?

 

Sad But True

Oct 14, 2009

I nominate George "Dubya" Bush, I also nominate Sarah Palin...nah, the actual athlete was the kid that knocked up her daughter....:-)

 

laslavic

Oct 15, 2009

Ya gotta love the dunder head leftists that are oh so offended that some people are having a little fun....just fun at der fearless leaders expense. In say about 9 years if it ever reaches the level of vicious hate that the leftists had/have for Bush and the shear volume of it every stinken chance they had maybe then I'll give it a thought.....for a nano second hah

 

JamieGee

Oct 16, 2009

No worries on Obama having a future career in the NFL or the Major Leagues, after 4 losing seasons in Washington!

 

Zogood

Oct 16, 2009

Hmm.... looks as though they've stipulated that a person must actually be eligible to win the award. I'm certain more than 16 people have voted for Barack and the leaderboard on that site goes all the way down to 16 and he's nowhere one it. It's a shame.

 

will

Oct 22, 2009

you people are all nut's

 

wow

Oct 24, 2009

you people are tools

 

GT

Oct 26, 2009

David Fredoso is a mean spirited person and a nincompoop.

 

Oct 26, 2009

Obama would be the first "Manchurian Candidate" to win!!!!!

 

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Oct 28, 2009

Ahh...Whatever, we have been listning to The O's and those Kool Aid drinkers ignorance for the last 10 months - more if you want to count the trip to the Throne.....as he would say...Let me make this perfectly clear, I am ignorant and yes, the world can acknowledge that also......Thank you, thank you very much....Elvis has left the building
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