If It's Not True Why Wasn't It Corrected Sooner?

SEE HERE The bottom line is that based on everything we know it is far more plausible that Barack Obama was born in Kenya than that he was born in Hawaii.  Why wasn't the Kenyan reference corrected over the some 17 years that it was promulgated and displayed and only corrected when it was decided to run for president?  Gee I wonder!