“Maya was born in Indonesia, so why would anyone expect her to have a birth certificate from Hawaii?”
Because some people believe things they hear without ever checking for sources. In this case, the claim that Maya Soetoro had a Hawaiian birth certificate began with discredited “expert” TechDude, just a week or so before he disappeared off the web.
TechDude wrote at TexasDarlin’s blog “For a quick preview – the original COLB used to create the KOS COLB image belongs to a female and does not belong to Obama. Another follow up report will reveal exactly who the original underlying COLB did belong to. Trust me when I tell you it is going to be one hell of a major twist that no one would have seen coming.”
“KG” then replied in comments:
KG // August 4, 2008 at 8:45 pm Holy crap. I’ve just duplicated the effort. It’s Maya’s - Maya Kassandra Soetoro. Her name fits perfectly in the artifacts.
Followed by this comment from TechDude:
techdude // August 5, 2008 at 12:06 am Congrats KG (I really wanted to play online all night but I am exhausted and will reply more in the AM)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2056030/posts?page=178
About a week after this, TechDude was publicly exposed and recognized as a fraud, and he vanished, without ever publishing any images of Maya’s name on the COLB, or instructions on how to find it. “KG” more or less disappeared into the ether too, never publishing anything about the name ‘discovery.’ No one else ever subsequently claimed independent knowledge of a COLB for Maya.
So although TechDude was discredited, somehow this ‘fact’ of his managed to take on a life of its own, with folks eventually claiming that Maya *had* a Hawaiian birth certificate, even though there was never any evidence of that.
This should be a warning to those who don't delve into the details themselves but tend to give the birthers some credibility. You shouldn't. The rest of the birther story follows a pretty similar pattern. The claims are not supported by the evidence.