With Barrack Obama's inherited war in Afghanistan raging on unabated; a war he calls a "war of necessity" and with the occupation of Iraq still intact under his administration, the man himself was shocked to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.
The deadline for nominations was just a week after Obama assumed office, and the man has just been in office for 10 months.
He is struggling with his public health policy at home, is fast losing the war in Afghanistan, has failed to pull troops out of Iraq as he promised during his election campaign, and he is yet to pull his country out of the global financial crisis.
With this unenviable record, Obama still made it to number one out of the 205 shortlisted candidates whose negatives must clearly have overshadowed this gloomy record of the 48-year-old United States president.
According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Swedish industrialist after whom this increasingly controversial if not notorious prize is named, the award is meant to go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
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