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Hyperbole: language that describes something better or worse than it really is. - Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Hyperbilan: One who engages in hyperbole. - Charlie Daniels Dictionary

Hyperbole is something we all engage in from time to time to embellish a story or drive home a point, a fairly harmless affectation when taken in that context.

�As high as a mountain.�

�Faster than lightening.�

�Harder than steel.�

�Strong as a bull.�

All benign phrases that have become part of our daily lexicon, regarded and accepted as such.

It's hard to imagine a good comedian performing without the benefit of a few outlandish lines or a good story teller not resorting to hyperbole in painting the verbal picture they want us all to be able to imagine.

But politicians and, political pundits have taken hyperbole to a new level in the last few years; we're all familiar with the rhetoric.

�Leave Big Bird alone.�

�Push granny off a cliff.�

�Republicans want to starve poor people.�

�Tax breaks for the rich.�

And the pièce de r�sistance by President Obama:

"I guess they're afraid of widows and orphans."

Now does President Obama really believe that America, proven to be the most charitable and compassionate nation on the planet, would reject refugees from Syria because we are afraid of the widows and orphans in the masses trying to escape the cruelties of the Middle East?

Not unless a screw in his highly-educated head has worked its way loose. No, what he wants to do is humiliate America, trying to make us think that we are doing an inhumane injustice to innocent people only seeking asylum for their families, knowing all the time that it's danged well not the widows and orphans in the bunch we fear, but the thousands of military-aged young men who could well come into this nation pre radicalized or at least vulnerable to radicalization.

And since when was radical Islam above using female suicide bombers?

We have to remember that even though the vast majority of these people are exactly what they seem, families running from the oppression trying to find a place where they can raise their families in peace, in this case, what you see is not necessarily what you get.

The way I see this, there are two unique problems.

One, that we already know, there are ISIS operatives among them and why the Obama administration refuses to take it's head out of the sand on this one, I do not know. His reticence to do so, at least in my opinion, is to guarantee future catastrophic terrorist attacks on American soil.

The other is that a large number of these people have been born into and nurtured in a much more rigid Islam, never exposed to Western culture, they have been taught to respect no other religion, no tolerance for other beliefs and ideologies, that all others who practice anything other than Islam are infidels and blasphemers.

One only has to look at the anti-Western and anti-American rhetoric coming from Middle Eastern television where Hamas TV has a children�s show featuring a man in a bee costume encouraging children to kill Jews, or training camps of children being indoctrinated into ISIS as the next generation of jihadists. Look them up, they aren�t hard to find.

Many will refuse to assimilate, forming more secretive Muslim enclaves where the potential - no - the likelihood of the planning of terrorist acts and the radicalization of their youth.

And if anybody doubts that, look around you and please don't start telling me about the wonderful Muslim family who lives next-door or great Muslim guys you work with.

I know there are many, many, good, peace-loving Muslims who have assimilated into American society and love and respect our country and way of life, but outside of the Western World, that view is more the exception rather than the rule, and the thousands that Obama, for his own political reasons, wants to bring here have been taught that America is a decadent and evil place that needs to feel the lash of Islamic Shari�a Law and convert to Islam. 

We have seen the death and mayhem one or two radical maniacs can cause.

How many would be included in the ten thousand Obama wants to bring into the nation?

It only takes one.

Is it worth the chance?

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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