TIME Magazine each year comes out with a group of famous and infamous that they think are deserving of Person of the Year and this year they’ve included Charlie Sheen.

Now you would think that he should feel honored about that. Past winners include such notables as Charles Lindbergh, Franklin Delano Roosevelt twice, JFK, Martin Luther King Jr. and Hitler. Wait, what? Yes, it seems like the award not only goes to the good guys, but to the bad guys as well. The chosen one is the one most influential or in your face, not the one who is most liked. Hitler, for all his horrible deeds, did influence the world, albeit terribly, in the 1940’s and thus was one of the recipients of this “award”. More recent winners include Bill Gates, Bono, Barack Obama, Fed chief Ben Bernanke, Vladimir Putin and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg. In 2006, they even cheaped out and named everyone as Person of the Year. I now use that on my resume.

But getting back to Charlie. He is only at #18 at the moment against some stiff and rather odd competition that ranges from the good, the bad, and the absurd. Sheen is probably somewhere in between, but deserves a lot better than his current ranking, especially against listmate and surprising choice Casey Anthony, who stands at #7. For those of you who don’t know who she is, she’s the young mother in Florida that was accused of killing and dumping her child in the trunk of a car, a case that was all over the news for months. She was found innocent, but like OJ speculation of her guilt still lingers.

Sheen also shares this year’s nominations with 30 others. There is Steve Jobs, Kim Kardashian, Kate Middleton, Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox News), Obama again, Mitt Romney, Warren Buffett, Candidate Herman Cain, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, and the protesters of the Arab Youth movement, the Occupy group (who has an early lead in the voting process), the internet group Anonymous (#2) among others. So if fans want him to win over the 99%’rs, they got a lot of work to do. You can get the entire list and vote for your choice at Time’s Person of the Year Page.

Sheen has certainly been a force to reckon with over the last year with his ups and downs and public displays of his tribulations with Goddesses and family, movies and his battle with Chuck Lorre over being fired from Two and Half Men, so I can’t think of anyone who was more in the spotlight than him. Just not sure how influential that makes him, but at least he’s leading Kim Kardashian and a ton of politicians, so that’s something.