The fightthesmears.com file is much lower resolution. If they are from the same source, it did not originate with the one on fightthesmears.com. I agree it is still possible they are not from the same source at all, but there is no way to demonstrate that from the files as posted, and at least one of them we now know to be fake.
Look, I suspect there is nothing to all of this because I have seen nothing compelling or credible to suggest that Obama was not born in the United States, but this admission of forgery makes it a lot more interesting to me.
How do we know that the McKinnon files weren't derived from the fightthesmears.com and daily kos file? The fightthesmears.com file is much lower resolution.
The McKinnon photobucket file is 800 x 781 pixels.
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The dailykos file is 2427 x 2369 pixels.
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Seems to me that the McKinnon photobucket file is lower resolution.