Stuff like that is actually forgivable. What isn’t is when the governor of Hawaii says her state put out a news release saying Obama was born in Kapiolani Hospital or when newspapers say that the DOH says Obama’s alleged COLB is real. These are supposably legit sources fabricating non-existent events. Do you suppose that’s the case for Obama’s wife saying that Kenya is his home country??
How is it possibly forgivable? Those are three examples of false claims cut completely from whole cloth. They're not just slips of the tongue or innocent misinterpretations; they're just made-up lies.
The claim about Maya's COLB was made up by an anonymous, discredited guy on the internet. The claim about the half-siblings was made up by an anti-Islamic blogger. The claim about the student aid was an outright April Fool's joke. None of them ever had a shred of credibility, all were disproven long ago, and yet some Birthers still repeat them as supposed truths. Some of them even get mentioned in Birther lawsuits.
Here's another example: the claim that Obama is ~42% Arab. That was completely made up by Kenneth Lamb, with no evidence whatsoever to support it. And yet some Birthers still bring it up.
What isn’t is when the governor of Hawaii says her state put out a news release saying Obama was born in Kapiolani Hospital or when newspapers say that the DOH says Obama’s alleged COLB is real.
So repeating completely fabricated and discredited stuff is forgivable, but getting a non-essential detail wrong is not? For instance, Lingle didn't make up an imaginary news release; she misstated that a very real news release said he was born in a particular Hawaiian hospital when in fact it just said he was born in Hawaii. And to anyone outside birtherism, an official state announcement that Obama was born in Hawaii is pretty solid evidence that he was born in Hawaii.