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I was shocked a few years ago when I was talking to an American woman I know, an intelligent and likeable person, and I said a few firebrand things about America's healthcare system. To my amazement she began to defend it, trying to convince me that everything was fine and 'we have the emergency rooms' and so on. I realized that she knew next to nothing about the subject. Because she and her husband had a good health plan from his previous employment which continued into retirement she was blind to what was really going on. But later I decided she just didn't want to know. She had made a choice not to know. It's the same with Barack Obama: anyone who doesn't know by now that he's not a Muslim, doesn't want to know. They're willing to be lied to, just the way she was. He should still try to combat the misinformation campaign but there are limits to how much 'the truth will set you free'. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink - or think.
