What happens if the President of the United States, the Republican party, and to some extend the Democratic party slam one individual, no matter how evil, 24/7?  You get results like these reported in Salon:

"At the end of the first week of January, the Princeton Survey Research Associates polled more than 1,200 Americans on behalf of the Knight Ridder newspaper chain. They asked a very simple question: "To the best of your knowledge, how many of the September 11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens?"

Of those surveyed, only 17 percent knew the correct answer: that none of the hijackers were Iraqi. Forty-four percent of Americans believe that most or some of the hijackers were Iraqi; another 6 percent believe that one of the hijackers was a citizen of that most notorious node in the axis of evil. That leaves 33 percent who did not know enough to offer an answer."

That is the power of the President’s Bully Pulpit. Even though there have been thousands of stories about how 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, almost 80 percent of those surveyed had no clue. Come on people, lets pay attention!