Fred, I really want to believe you that this photo was doctored, but I have an old army foot locker filled with albums containing similar damaged family pictures from the past 100 years. Small scratches & anomalies from the photos getting moisture in old photos is not abnormal since we have no way of knowing the condition they were stored in. I have done several digital family album videos over that past 10 yrs and thus have had to touch up a quite a few pictures, so please don't tell me I don't know what I am talking about
I am a very practical business person & common sense tells me that someone saw a scratch, and then went to town with all sorts of theories. And that is all they are for now, theories because there is no so-called original of Obama sitting by himself on that bench.