From Snopes:
An earlier version circulated in mid-April 2009 credits authorship to one Franklin T. Bell of Columbia, Maryland.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/ihavehadit.asp#bsIxVRpIgbYr1ABf.99
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READ PLEASE
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/snopes_exposed.htm
I do not know where it came from but snopes cannot and should not be trusted any more than any other media outlet.