The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed a blow in the dark, asleep Washington. He won! Why?

For one of the youngest presidents of the United States, in office less than nine months - and only 12 days before the deadline of February Nobel nomination - was a great honor.

Allocation seems to be more the promise of Obama for his performance. The ambitious agenda for the president, both at home and abroad, is barely under way, much less finish. No outstanding minute victory, which seems to justify a conviction, which sweeps broadcast of the Nobel committee.

Obama is running two wars in the Muslim world - in Iraq and Afghanistan - and can not obtain an account of climate change through its own congress.Your scorecard for the year is virtually an "incomplete" if it is graded.

It prohibits torture and other extreme interrogation techniques of terrorists. But he also promised to close the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a source of both the U.S. displeasure around the world, a difficult task that now seems headed to lose his own deadline of January 2010.

He said he would end the Iraq war. However, it has been slow to bring the troops and the real purpose of U.S. military presence did not come until at least 2012, and only if the U.S. Iraq and stick to its current agreement on the withdrawal of U.S. troops.This has led to new efforts to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians. But he got little cooperation from both sides.

He said he wants a world without nuclear weapons. But one thing is desired by telegraph, in a speech in Prague in April, and another to connect to other nations and U.S. lawmakers when the network of treaties and agreements are necessary to make reality.

He has said that tackling climate change a priority. But the U.S. seems to head into crucial for international negotiations in Copenhagen in December that the legislation remains stalled in Congress.

Perhaps the Nobel committee are limited to changing the tone of Washington to the rest of the world is enough. Obama received much attention for his speech in Cairo reach out to Muslims in the U.S. in the world. His comments during the General Assembly of the United Nations last month laid the foundations for the new road for the U.S. is working with the world.

Obama aides seemed surprised by the news that everyone else, not even knowing that she had been nominated along with a record 204 people. Awakened by the press secretary Robert Gibbs about an hour after the announcement of the vote, White House says President replied that he was humbled to be only the third U.S. President login to win.

The price could be as much about the issue of a slap in Obama's predecessor, former President George W. Bush, who praise about Obama. Bush was spotted by the world for his cowboy diplomacy, the war in Iraq and opposition to European priorities, such as global warming. Remember that the Nobel Prize has a long tradition of being given more to the aspirations of the commission of the results of others - for peace in the Middle East or a better South Africa, for example.

In such cases, the grant to encourage those who receive it to see the effort through, sometimes at critical times.

Obama probably understands your challenges are too steep to overcome - the honor, much less - after only a few months. "It will not be easy," the president often says of the pending tasks for the U.S. and the world.

Nobel committee apparently had dared to hope that ultimately will produce a record worthy of his reward.