Giant Spoof: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

It looks as if the Huffington Post is playing an April's Fool joke on everyone... just a few months early. Given the mess of foreign relations and the heightening tensions worldwide, it takes a pretty sick mind to come up with this:

October 09, 2009

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.