Via Steve Hayward:

Then again, Chopra did say this:

I’d suggest that the X factor which sets Barack Obama aside as a unique candidate is his hard-won self-awareness. If we are lucky, we will wake up and begin the journey back to self-awareness as a people. Disraeli wasn’t entirely right. To make a career in public life a person must know himself and know the times. But to make a historical career in public life, the times must seek you out. That happens only rarely, and now it has happened to a junior senator from Illinois. If Barack Obama makes it all the way to the White House, it will represent a quantum leap in American consciousness and a promise to restore America’s position in the world.

He was sort of right. We did become more self-aware as a people. We became aware that the American people don’t want to be Europeans.