I guess he was out flying his plane when IBM the Nobel Committee showed up.
Tsvangirai, for those of you who don't know, is the PM of Zimbabwe, and head of the Movement for Democratic Change, and has been opposing the brutal regime of Robert Mugabe for years, and now is in a unity government that appears to making things a (little bit) better, with the promise a better future for the now destitute nation.
The symbolism of the United States electing a black man president is a very strong thing, and everyone in the world who is not George W. Bush should be eligible for an award for not being George W. Bush, except for Dick Cheney.
But the Nobel Peace Prize is about who you are, not who you aren't.
If the award gets us out of Afghanistan sooner rather than later, this would be a good thing, both for the US and Afghanistan, but that does not justify the award.
9 months ago, Barack Obama was the junior Senator from Illinois, and I hope that over the next 39 (hopefully 87) months he does something to earn the award, but there is simply no comparison between his actions to date (less than 9 months) to the years long efforts of Morgan Tsvangirai, Ingrid Betancourt, Piedad Córdoba, Hu Jia, or Pete Seeger on behalf of peace, reconciliation, and justice.