When the U.S. president can clam the authority to kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason, or none, and not be subject to even having that decision questioned by anyone, what other tyranny does that leave unclaimed? NO tyrant in history, from Alexander to Ghengis Khan to Pol Pot or Adolph Hitler ever want anything more than that power. It isn't hyperbole on my part; go READ what the people who claim to represent this sad State actuall claim out of their own damned mouthes. The problem here is not "hyperbole;" it is the inability of people to face the truth of the facts on the ground because they've wrapped themselves up in evasions, rationalizations, sophistries, and pretty words on a piece of parchment, or as Arthur Silber pointed out (linked below) they are blinded by the story. The phenomenon is not new in history. See for examples:

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Mayer (http://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313073719&sr=1-1)
OR
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (http://www.amazon.com/Cant-Happen-Here-Sinclair-Lewis/dp/045121658X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313073719&sr=1-2)
OR
Blinded by the Story: Liberals and Progressives as Political Creationists (http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/08/blinded-by-story-liberals-and.html)