Learn-A-Word Wednesday: cabal \kuh-BAHL; kuh-BAL

noun:
1. A secret, conspiratorial association of plotters or intriguers whose purpose is usually to bring about an overturn especially in public affairs.
2. The schemes or plots of such an association.
3. To form a cabal; to conspire; to intrigue; to plot.

But the new world of toys is by no means simply the product of a profit-mad cabal of toy pushers discovering new ways of exploiting the child market.
– Gary Cross, Kids’ Stuff

Cabal derives from Medieval Latin cabala, a transliteration of Hebrew qabbalah, “received,” hence “traditional, lore,” from qabal, “to receive.” The evolution in sense is: “(secret) tradition, secret, secret plots or intrigues, secret meeting, secret meeters, a group of plotters or intriguers.”

I’m not one to get into long political debates. It seems to me that most politicians do not end up doing what they claim they will, so I have a hard time believing a damn word any of those power-hungry, narcissistic freaks say listening to much of anything for very long.

However, I couldn’t not hear about Sarah Palin. I suspect this selection may have been the result of a cabal. The question is which side? Who benefits from this choice, now and in four years? Did McCain pick her? Or did Hilary pick her? Or certain Alaskans?

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