I'm not buying that story. Too much pixie dust. When did it first hit the internet and what's the background of Fife?
As for the Equatorial Guinea connection, it may just be that Kenya was prime for foreign exchange students. Maybe that was the fad back then or maybe think of it like generation after generation on welfare. With so many Obamas in the tribe, it wouldn't be unusual for there to be more than one born in '61. In the '70s it was Iranians and many of them with the same last name. Currently where I live we have a bunch of Pakistanis with the same last name who "claim" they aren't related.
I'm not buying that story. Too much pixie dust. When did it first hit the internet and what's the background of Fife?
The first time I saw this story was in the fall 2008. According to WND the guy exists.
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February 10, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
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"....The leader of the Communist Party USA may not be the only one doing Communist cartwheels. Brace yourself for what I'm about to say next. Last fall, prior to the presidential election, a friend of mine, Dr. Wiley Drake, former second vice president for the Southern Baptist Convention, sent me an e-mail on which I didn't report. It just seemed too extreme. It was from a software developer he met named Tom Fife who told of how he first heard of the name "Barack."
I can't prove whether it's true or not, but in light of all that is happening, it just doesn't seem that far-fetched anymore. All I [Jane Porter] know is that Tom Fife is a real guy – not some e-mail scam. I've talked to him. He was a government contractor with an active security clearance who took notes on his trips for debriefings with the Defense Intelligence Agency within the Department of Defense. This is what he wrote down after it happened in 1992, before anyone ever heard the name "Barack":
The first time I heard of Barack...."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=88439
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