President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
Later: I've been thinking about this, and feel that Obama won more because he wasn't George W. Bush than for any other reason. The committee didn't wait until Obama's term of office ended to make the award, giving it to him while Obama has achieved nothing, which isn't the prudent thing to do; Obama still has 3 years in which to screw things up in a massive and horrible manner.
In point of fact, only one Republican US president has ever won the prize: Theodore Roosevelt, who was among the most liberal (in the modern meaning of the word) of all Republican presidents, so perhaps the prize ought to be be renamed the Nobel Not Republican (and most importantly, not George W. Bush) Peace Prize.
And still later: Let's have a poll!
And Yet Later Still: They've given it to 3 men who were noted for their opposition to George W. Bush, and all in period of Bush's term of office: Jimmy Carter, who criticised Bush regularly; Gore, who lost to Bush in 2000; and Obama, who succeeded Bush and blames him for every evil event in the history of the world. They would have given it to that reporter in Iraq who hurled the shoe at Bush except that he missed.
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I can't stand Carter, but it's plausible that he should have received the Prize. Egypt and Israel are still at peace, and he put his prestige on the line.
He didn't have many accomplishments, but Camp David seems like something that did some good.
@Borepatch: I never really gave Carter credit for Camp David, other than being lucky enough to be President when an arab leader (Anwar Sadat, in this case) decided to stop being a mule-headed bigot and actually try and get along with the Israelis, which he paid for with his life; as for Egypt remaining peaceful toward the Israelis since, we pay them millions of dollars in bribes (oops, I mean foreign aid) to keep the peace.
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