Even a Preschooler Can See The Intellectual Dishonesty

Back to this topic again - God knows I wish I wasn't back to this place but my almost 5 year old made a comment a few days ago when we were channel surfing and found a repeat of the VP debate, which of course I stopped to look at.

Until my kid wise beyond her years said "Turn that off! I can't stand her hyperbole!!!" I was stunned, then scrambling to remember what hyperbole means. It was one of those moments where I instincively knew but if someone were to come up to me, I wouldn't be able to phrase it. So I looked it up and below, from Webster's Online:

Etymology:
Latin, from Greek hyperbolē excess, hyperbole, hyperbola, from hyperballein to exceed, from hyper- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date:
15th century
: extravagant exaggeration (as “mile-high ice-cream cones”)
— hy·per·bo·list \-list\ noun

Again, the chills ran down my back at just how damn perceptive my eldest offspring is. Then a couple of days later Palin started levelling the now infamous charges that Barack Obama pals around with William Ayers, who was active in Weather Underground during the 1960s and therefore he's a terrorist sympathizer if not a flat out terrorist himself. A quick
fact check from CNN clarifies this, like everything else Palin says as at least hyperbole if not flat out BS.

And how funny the word "hyperbole" is so associated with the word "devil" when That Woman has driven supporters at rallies to behave like mobs of rabid animals.

Palin power my ASS, say hello to People Power on November 4th. Maybe not so coincidentally that's the day my daughter turns 5.