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When I googled it extensively in 2008, for each name, I could find no other references except for Russian references. Now, the Internet says differently and in fact one of the names suddenly seems to be Sasha rather than Natasha.

Oh my gosh...the name conspiracy extends to the entire Internet!! 'Cause that makes tons of sense.

but you may indeed be right, he just may be stupid enough to name his child after a cartoon character.

I'm sorry, but I appear to have been unclear. See the Facebook pointer that you skipped over entirely? That was to point out that Natasha is not an uncommon name for young black girls. The comic book footnote was not to suggest that Barack was inspired by said character; it was to make the EXACT SAME POINT that Natasha is not an uncommon name for African American girls.

I'm not sure how you failed to put that together, but hopefully we're on the same page now.

I, on the other hand, have proof of what I propose — have you heard the interview by Dr. John C. Drew, PhD? And Tom Fife?

Tom Fife? Who's... ***goes Googling***

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HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!

Seriously? I mean...SERIOUSLY???

Birtherism's provided me with a lot of wacked-out wingnutty and tin-foil-hatty theories, but THAT may just take the cake. 'Convicted fraudster obtains secret Kenyan birth certificate' doesn't hold a candle to this. Even the 'Teenage Obama confessed his Kenyan birth to me' story pales in comparison to this bit of fantasy.

It's not even good as fiction. Fife makes one of the same mistakes that Bannon made, and he compounds it further. Namely, in the course of claiming that some civilian Russian wife was privy to a plethora of details about a long-term Soviet plan to plant a Manchurian candidate in the Oval Office (wait...I need to pause to laugh more at how stupid this is...OK...I'm good), he claims that said housewife practically rattled off Obama's entire biography up 'til that point. It's not enough that she said there'd be a black Communist; no, she gave his name AND his parents' races AND nationalities AND his college status, just so there's no ambiguity for storytelling purposes. Yeesh.

I suppose I should take some solace in the fact that unlike so many other Birther rumors, this one seems to have died a fairly swift death. Which means that even as other stupid rumors manage to propagate, this rumor is just TOO stupid to live.

Thanks for the laugh, though. It's always amazing the kind of ridiculous and stupid stuff that's out there.