It took a while to find, but this page has the very first posts I ever made here discussing Barack Oama.
http://tnation.T-Nation.com/free_online_forum/world_news_war/is_barack_the_change_his_brothers_been_waiting_for
Here is a post of mine from 10-07-2008, 07:07 PM
Some of us were not taken by surprise by this guy at all.