Ordinarily, I could jump all over Obama for his choice in reading material, but I think I’ll wait to see what, if anything, the candidate says about Fareed Zakaria’s book, The Post-American World.

For example, I think Obama’s in trouble if he starts spouting lines like this:

ZAKARIA: We have to adjust. First of all, it’s a much more competitive world. We have to be benchmarking. We have to be asking ourselves, what’s going on? Give you simple example. Meredith there are three countries in the world that have not adopted the metric system: Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States. So we look around the world and “We say, that’s okay. Those standards are for you. We’re special, we’re different.” And what I’m saying is that era of kind of “American exceptionalism” is over.

Of course, recall that there was buzz “Newsweek’s foreign-affairs columnist Fareed Zakaria could be Secretary of State in any future Barack Obama administration.”