If President Obama’s fragile ego was shattered by the resounding rejection from the Olympic Committee in Copenhagen, we shouldn’t worry. After all, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has come to his rescue by awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize.

You just have to wonder how this is playing in Obama’s mind.

The President obviously attended one of those schools where the restroom mirrors had the little sign that read: "You are looking at someone VERY special." Like far too many other children, educated in the "elf-esteem era" of school fads, young Barry may have believed it. Now he’s the president and takes in all the admiration and adulation that comes along with the position.

"Mmm mmm mmm! Barack Hussein Obama!" That, of course is the now-famous chant from the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in New Jersey. The President must have heard it. He must know that this isn’t the only school that features Obama indoctrination. He knows about the tingle that goes up the side of Chris Matthews’ leg at the very mention of his name.

The question is: when does healthy self-esteem become pathological narcissism?

A narcissist is typically associated with vanity, conceit, egotism or outright selfishness. In a recent column, George Will pointed out that when the Obamas traveled to Copenhagen to secure the Olympics for Chicago, they delivered impassioned speeches about…themselves. In the 41 sentences of her speech, Will points out, Mrs. Obama used the personal pronouns "I" or "me" 44 times. The President used the pronouns 26 times in 48 sentences.

When he spoke at the United Nations along with other important world leaders such as Moammar Qadafy and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President’s opening line was: The world has great expectations…of me…"

It’s always about him. As a candidate, in July of 2008, there was brouhaha about his intention to speak in Germany with the Brandenburg Gate as a backdrop. He ended up speaking to a crowd of 200,000 people at Berlin’s Victory Column, beginning with – of course – his own biography, and ending with a call for total nuclear disarmament. Spiegel Online quoted some political experts who called the speech "empty rhetoric," but it obviously caught the eye of the Nobel Committee.

It MUST enhance one’s self esteem to have so many Germans show up for an American campaign speech. So much so that a month later, Mr. Obama dressed up his stage at the Democratic National Convention to look like a Greek temple complete with marble columns. Even the leftist web magazine Salon thought it was a weird thing to do, as Alex Koppelman wrote: "I suppose there's an outside chance this could actually look good when it's finished and all the trappings are in place. But right now it just seems incredibly tone-deaf." With help of the media, Obama got away with it.

The problem with this "I-me" and "Greek-column" presidency is that the rest of the world is going to catch on. People in others countries have worshipped Obama because they have been conditioned to hate George W. Bush. But, among leaders, the facade is crumbling.

A Joy Tiz column in the Canada Free Press quotes sources close to French President Nicolas Sarkozy as saying Sarkozy thinks Obama is "incredibly naive and grossly egotistical – so egotistical that no one can dent his naiveté." Former Sen. Rick Santorum says "…his ego gets in the way of him learning anything about why he’s wrong…" Former CIA official Michael Scheuer called Obama "a perpetual adolescent."

They called George W. Bush a "cowboy," but he could make tough decisions and stick by them. He liberated two countries and kept America safe after 9/11. Barack Obama is proving to be a narcissist who believes in his own infallibility, but who can’t make a decision about Afghanistan. This should tell us something about the Nobel Committee -- and our much-vaunted self-esteem programs in public schools.