Clio Award
Clio Awards

Okie dokie then....Our President receives a Nobel Peace Prize without any lobbying effort on his part and even appears a little embarrassed in his short speech acknowledging that he will accept it.  Only 9 months in office and he receives the Nobel Peace Prize.

And w? Eight frickin years in the Oval Office and nada. Of course, his first eight months he was not really IN the Oval Office. He was on vacation of course in Texas. I mean he was tired out having begun his run four years before he was ever chosen by the United States Supreme Court for the office. But he did have a birth certificate and everything.

But still it seems so unfair. I do not think he even got around to awarding himself the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award that he handed out to members of his cabinet every time he fired them.

Well I think George W. Bush should get some consolation prize for his efforts.

So I thought, why not award him a Clio.

The Clio Awards are given to reward creative excellence in advertising and design. They are awarded in a number of fields, including: TV, Print, Outdoor, Radio, Integrated Campaign, Innovative Media, Design, Internet, Content & Contact, and Student work.

The awards are named for Clio, the Greek Muse of history and were first given in 1959. They were expanded to include international work in 1965. The 1991 ceremony was plagued by scandal. The scheduled presenter failed to appear, and two impromptu presenters struggled to carry out the show -- a task that was made all the more difficult by the lack of a winners list. Following this, a group of investors headed by Chicago publisher Ruth Ratny reorganized the awards program and eventually sold it to Dutch-owned company VNU, which changed its name to the Nielsen Company in 2007 and is the Clios' parent company to this day.

Clio is one of the largest awards programs of its kind. Its official press release indicates that in 2007 the competition received more than 19,000 entries from all over the world and enlisted a jury of more than 110 judges from 62 countries.

Previous awards have included these gems:

Shooting gerbils out of cannons for Outpost.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzbMcsrK-tw

Honda, Is it not nice when things just work?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_qUjrMtMec

Lee Travino selling Dodge Monacos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D1OkgCoFWY

Vantriloquist selling American Tourist luggage and Chewels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8W_lNvk8rM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reprl6IQt7k

George W Bush surely should get a clio. Just look at Letterman's top ten bloopers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NTPG5OXPZo

George W. Bush's best myspace.com (8min less 30 secs for a commercial)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkLqDeGqZ6g&NR=1

Well, he was never an ad man, you say!!!

Well you can talk all you want about puppets in luggage or gerbils in cannons; but w knew how to sell:

Sell a war in a country that had nothing to do with the attack on our nation on 9/11/09

Sell a tax break that really only affected the top one percent of our richest citizens as a tax break for all working Americans.

Sell a piece of legislation that took away our constitutional rights as the Patriot Act.

Sell a piece of legislation that helped the corporate polluters and call it The Clean Air Act.

Sell Congress on appointing corporate yahoos to the nations highest cabinet offices; offices that are supposed to be watching the chicanery of the corporate yahoos.

In fact sell the American People on keeping the single most incompetent person to ever sit in the White House for a second term.

I mean, come on folks, comedy works.

And this Bozo should be recognized for exactly what he was.