By now you must've heard that the new (is he still considered new?) president of the United States has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples" (Globe and Mail).
Barack Obama is undoubtedly a pretty amazing public figure - after all, he did call Kanye an "asshole" after the whole Taylor Swift/VMA debacle - but this did come as a bit of a surprise for a president who was nominated after only being in office for 11 days.
After all, as former prize winner Lech Walesa noted, he hasn't really done anything yet.
Walesa, a Polish dissident who, in the 1980s, led a decade-long solidarity movement that eventually usurped the Soviet rule, commented that "there hasn't been any contribution to peace yet. He's proposing things, he's initiating things, but he has yet to deliver."
So - does Obama deserve the award or is it too much too soon?
More information at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize/article1318102/
