There are so many eligible candidates for 2011รข�²s April Fools Awards that it's difficult to choose the most worthy but I have narrowed down the best by limiting them to the most current in their various fields.
POLITICS:
When it comes to fools, President Barack Hussein Obama is the leader of the pack and most deserving by far. His most recent excursions into foolery include announcing he was dispatching covert CIA spy teams to Libya, admitting he didn't want to deport illegal aliens and saying, "We want them to succeed," and secretly accepting an award for the absence of secrecy in his administration.
Someone in our scholarly leader's coterie should explain to Obama the meanings of "covert," "illegal," and transparency.
Close runner-up for political fool of the year is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's who has called for continued federal funding of the "cowboy poetry festival" when the nation is broke.
ENTERTAINMENT:
Clear stand-out for entertainment's fool prize is Charlie Sheen, but not for his antics on and off Twitter nor for his planned and allegedly fully-booked "Charlie Sheen's: Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option tour. After all, Charlie is Charlie and, if nothing else, his antics have been amusing, in a way, even if they are suggestive of lunacy, and his tour promises to be a circus.
Charlie is a fool for screwing with his job on "Two and a Half Men," for which he was raking in millions per episode, and especially for thinking he could get away with verbally crossing its creator-producer, Chuck Lorre, with anti-Semitic remarks.
