while i agree it may looks curious to give this award to Obama so early into is presidency, seeing from overseas, my american friends, here is how i think you should take this honor:
This is not Obama that receives the Nobel Prize in fact , it is the american people who has been wise enough to elect him, sending a message of anti-racism, opening to the World, choice of diplomacy over brutal force and that has decided to change the direction of its foreign policies after 8 years of Bushism that had made the USA the most hated country in the world (for good or bad reasons, but it's the truth)