BULLETIN - AT 8:14 P.M. ET:  Nobel peace laureate Barack Obama has been awarded the black belt in tae kwan do for zero years of training and practice. There must be something in the air. 

Andrew Malcolm, at the L.A. Times's Top of the Ticket, gives us the exciting details of dear leader's latest triumph:

Anyway, there he was in Seoul, South Korea on the last stop of his journey.

And out of the Seoul sky, President Lee Myung-bak hands over to the American leader a tae kwan do outfit. And then Lee, who practices tae kwan do himself, presents Obama with a coveted black belt.

After 0 long years of study.

There are also reports that the White House will announce later today that the president is pregnant, and will have a baby in May.

November 19,  2009