In a category by Himself.

James Taranto notes that magazine publisher have created a special category for prize-giving: the Obama category.

In a Category by Himself
When we first read this on NewsBusters.org, we thought it was a joke:

The Magazine Publishers of America's American Society of Magazine Editors has added a category to its annual magazine cover awards: Obama. This new category is the only ASME category focused on a single person, and highlights the reverential attitude for the President widely held in the magazine publishing community.
But it's true, as we discovered on the ASME Web site. The Magazine Cover of the Year is also the winner in the Best Obama Magazine Cover category, a Rolling Stone cover featuring a beatifically smiling Barack. The runners-up: Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, the New York Times magazine and two covers from The New Yorker, neither featuring a terrorist fist-bump.

The more we thought about it, though, the more this made sense to us. Given how amazingly super President Obama is, there is a temptation to give him every award for everything. Example: It's hard to imagine that anyone will end up deserving the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama will, but if the Norwegian Nobel Committee gives Obama the prize every year, no one else will have any incentive to work for peace. Solution: create two separate prizes, the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Non-Obama Peace Prize. Problem solved!

The separation of Obama awards from others would allow him to get his due, while making it possible for people besides Obama to get some recognition once in a while. Other people, after all, sometimes are worthy too--just not worthy of Obama.