Prior to running for president, Obama ran for and served as a senator in Illinois. That alone pretty much gets rid of the he came out of nowhere kind of gambit. But it's legit way worse than that. Before being senator, Obama was a member of the Illinois Senate, winning his first election in 1996. Being part of the state senate, that puts Obama right on the same level as all these weirdo state senators that Alex constantly has on his program to talk about reasserting their 10th Amendment rights and all that shit. He was in... State Senate since 1997. That's almost as long as Alex has been on the radio. Obama has been in an elected state position.

What Alex is really saying here, and what all these people are really saying, is that when they say he appeared out of nowhere, is he wasn't on my radar. That's all they're really saying.