Sure, but no one outside communist/Lib theology circles paid any attention to him. I just doubt that unless Simmons was a deeper leftist than he used to be, that he would have drawn on an obscure pol/comm organizer as his inspiration for the ‘words’.
I’m not suggesting the story is true, but it’s a fun speculation. Simmons did write it in first person as if it were factual. And it’s certainly panning out, except that Ahmedinejad is no longer in power.
I would say BHO was already in the Presidential pipeline when he gave that speech at the 2004 DNC convention, and his Chicago handlers and NOI had been making way for him since he entered politics in the early 1990s. Before that, there’s little doubt his education was paid for by Arabs and he went to “finishing school” in Pok-ee-stahn. So in hindsight he can be seen coming from a long way off.
Here’s a tangential thought: if time travel were real, isn’t it likely that most of the audience in Ford’s Theater on the night Lincoln was assassinated would have been visitors from the future? And wouldn’t the same would be true for most of the people who ate at the restaurant in the Twin Towers the night before 9/11? It’s almost worth sifting through checks and credit card receipts to see if they link up to real people or not.