President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Committee announced today that they were awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, only 9 months into his term. While the award was given in honor of Obama's efforts to bring people together from around the world in the past year, Obama has been facing substantial criticism in the U.S. in the past several weeks for failing to accomplish any of the major points he laid out in his ambitious agenda.

While the W.H. claims that they had no idea that Obama had even been nominated, Obama will have to balance looking grateful for the prize even in the face of the many Americans complaining that he doesn't deserve it. Just this week Obama was criticized on the right for being a narcissist and too much of an international celebrity, and the Peace Prize is likely to serve as more kindling for that fire.