“Its crazy how people eat up the lies.”
This is something that professional con men know well and in fact rely on. People are all too willing to believe a lie that they want to be true, so it makes the con man’s job much easier. The best cons play on the mark’s hopes, dreams and ambitions.
For example, take a very simple short con, the Lottery Ticket con. Con buys a regular lottery ticket, then forges it to make it appear to be a winning ticket. Then, the con “finds” the ticket when a likely rube is passing by, and loudly announces their amazement at finding the winning ticket. In short order, the con will get the rube to pay him some amount of money less than the prize amount in exchange for the ticket, with any number of excuses as to why.
Now, the only reason that this works is because people want it to be true that they are lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to get in on this windfall. If they didn’t let their emotions get the best of them, they would easily realize that there’s no good reason for the con to sell them the ticket at a discount or propose to share the winnings with them for a little cash up front. Most people just want to believe so badly that they do the con man’s work for him and push their better judgement aside.
The question with Obama is “Why are people so willing to swallow his crap?”
And the answer is that people want to believe in a black president so badly in order to alleviate an imagined guilt, that they are willing to put aside reason and turn a blind eye to anything the man does.