Predicting Obama (And Hillary)

A Brazilian novel from 1926 had some pretty chilling foresight (although it missed the actual date by a couple of centuries or so). It's becoming a new sensation in Latin America:

‘The Black President' is a scary book. Frightening in many ways. Firstly, by the prescient character of the piece. In 1926, Lobato forecasts the invention of a kind of data radio transmission that would make it possible for human beings to accomplish their tasks from their home, without having to relocate to work. He also anticipates the disappearance of the printing press, for the news will be “radiated” directly to the houses of the individuals and will appear in bright letters on a screen exactly how it is happening with whoever is reading this very text. [It is] in one modern word the Internet. But the premonitions don't stop there. By the time he was moving to the US as commercial attach at the Brazilian embassy, Monteiro Lobato foresaw the election of a black president in the US.

The specific political moment in the year of 2228 that bore such a situation would be due to the split that occurred in the white race, between a candidate from the Masculine Party (Kerlog) and a candidate from the Feminine Party (Evelyn Astor). The neo-feminist Evelyn Astor has the victory almost guaranteed, but then the black leader Jim Roy surges and ends up being elected President.