If they can repeat a lie and make it big, we can repeat the truth and make it big.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

As the President repeated the truth about the deficit before and after boosh ("Just stating the facts!"), and as he clarified the gains this admin. has made, and as he noted the repubs' continuous game playing against the American people's interests, and as the immediate rise in his polling after the speech shows:

we CAN repeat the truth.

Sure, the media drowns us out and prevents us from seeing the incremental improvements, for now -- but as Obama continues to push and state the facts, so should we.

[mopinko]

1. the trouble is that the lies

are carefully crafted to appeal to people's baser instincts, and the truth usually requires the higher thinking functions.
but we can try.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. but repetition also has power

as we see with stupid commercialism -- but also in loftier areas, like the learning process.

[mopinko]

3. still, the 2

are not on equal footing, sadly.