The Hillary Clinton Quarterly has been keeping up with Hillary's career since 1992 when she became First Lady. As Secretary of State, Hillary carries out the President's foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States. She was sworn in as the 67th Secretary of State of the United States on January 21, 2009.
By J. Lowe
In order to understand Hillary's viewpoint, one must also understand her Nemesis, Rush Limbaugh:
Affluence --
Hillary: Something only rich people in this country
enjoy.
Rush: Something all Americans making over $30,000 are
now said to have.
Algorithm --
Hillary: A method for computing deficit reduction.
Rush: The periodic recurrence of a new wave of
environmental regulations pro posed by Al Gore.
Audit --
Hillary: A means to ensure fairness and to verify
deductions.
Rush: The highest cause of anxiety, followed by
divorce and a death in the family.
Baby --
Hillary: A helpless victim of poverty, injustice, and
inadequate care.
Rush: A four letter word denoting a "cute," often
illegitimate debtor which costs taxpayers over $100,000, and
which also cause air pollution by requiring frequent trips
to daycare centers, hospitals, and later to toy stores for
Nintendo games.
Bank --
Hillary: A repository of Federal Reserve notes used
to finance free enterprise.
Rush: An institution which processes government
checks for immediate transfer of wealth to the homeless,
jobless, and lazy.
Bankruptcy --
Hillary: A misfortune caused by inadequate planning
and oversight.
Rush: What happens to businesses which do not meet
new environmental standards.
Big Business --
Hillary: Polluter of the planet.
Rush: Employer of the people.
Bill --
Hillary: Husband.
Rush: Any giveaway program proposed by Congress which
does nothing to decrease the Deficit.
Camelot --
Hillary: A magical utopia without pollution,
prejudice, or inequity.
Rush: A mythical nirvana where the torch hasn't been
passed, the Clintons haven't dropped it, and we won't soon
be going up in flames.
Capital Punishment --
Hillary: Cruel and unusual punishment.
Rush: A rare and controversial law which, if enforced
quickly, might save millions of tax dollars while disposing
of criminals before they get to see the TV movies based on
their crimes.
Catch 22 --
Hillary: Whatever the projected budget for a
government program is, the Republicans will always oppose
it.
Rush: Whatever the projected budget for a government
program is, the actual cost is at least triple.
Celebrity --
Hillary: Anyone who supports our causes, or visits us
on vacation.
Rush: Anyone who makes at least $50,000 a week and
supports Democrats.
Children --
Hillary: Our hope for the future.
Rush: Our hope - God help us - for the future.
Civics --
Hillary: The study of the processes of government and
their relationships to citizens.
Rush: The study of disorganization and fiscal chaos.
Civilization --
Hillary: The Great Society.
Rush: A group of polite people with a purpose, as
during Ronald Reagan's administration. . . and ending when
Bush said "read my lips."
Class Envy --
Hillary: A mis-labeled desire for fairness and
equality of compensation.
Rush: Envy which occurs in people who don't have any
class.
Communist --
Hillary: A member of the former USSR ruling party.
Rush: Any socialist with a gun.
Condoms --
Hillary: Life preservers.
Rush: Sex toys subsidized by taxpayers for grade
school students.
Congress --
Hillary: A legislative body for debate, consensus,
and action on the concerns of the American people.
Rush: A private club for liberal lawyers.
Conservative --
Hillary: A near-sighted advocate of the status quo.
Rush: A person with 20/20 vision often prescribed
corrective lenses.
Deficit Spending --
Hillary: Spending more than current available
revenues.
Rush: The buying of people's votes with money they
haven't yet earned.
Democrat --
Hillary: A true American. . . a citizen in a
collective democracy.
Rush: Someone who's afraid you have more than him.
Dependents --
Hillary: Children, parents, the sick or the elderly.
Rush: All citizens of the State.
Divorce --
Hillary: Unfortunately, a lawyer's bread and butter.
Rush: When heated, a lawyer's toast and jam.
Downsize --
Hillary: To take advantage of poor, disadvantaged
employees in order to make more profit.
Rush: To turn asses into ashes by firing them.
Earth Day --
Hillary: A day to remember that we all share the same
planet, and that we must protect it together against all
abuses.
Rush: A day set aside by leftist radicals to
contemplate the evils of Capitalism, and to plan strategies
against it.
Endangered Species --
Hillary: Any of a thousand species on the edge of
extinction.
Rush: The dwindling upper class.
Entitlements --
Hillary: Birthrights.
Rush: Embezzlements.
Environmentalist --
Hillary: A believer in the future for our children.
Rush: An atheist who believes man is: A) Filthy, B)
Guilty, and C) God.
Feminist --
Hillary: A believer in the rights of women to be
independent and equal.
Rush: An abnormal woman who sues men for everything,
including penis envy.
Gangs --
Hillary: Children for whom the school system will
continue to fail until we decide to become recommitted to
funding of education.
Rush: Groups of punks who still don't know what
"family values" mean, even after taxpayers spend billions on
inner city schools.
Greed --
Hillary: The cause of everything presently wrong in
America.
Rush: The cause of everything presently wrong in
Washington.
Hieroglyphics --
Hillary: A difficult to decipher system of
communication used by ancient Egyptians.
Rush: The system of communication utilized by the tax
codes.
High School Graduates --
Hillary: Students qualified for college / service
loans.
Rush: Young punks who can whistle all the Top 40
tunes but can't read their own diplomas.
Human Rights --
Hillary: The rights which caring people grant all
living beings.
Rush: The rights which liberals grant spotted owls on
an equal basis with starving lumberjacks.
Insensitivity --
Hillary: An antisocial disease common to conservative
radio talk show hosts.
Rush: An antisocialistic affliction common to people
targeted for tax audits.
I.R.S. --
Hillary: An institution which collects the
contributions of loyal Americans.
Rush: A secret government agency created to
redistribute your wealth to people you will never meet, and
to projects you would never understand.
Liberal --
Hillary: Open-minded, clear-headed, far sighted.
Rush: A near-sighted person prescribing rose-colored
glasses.
Lifestyle --
Hillary: That style and grace one exhibits while
living one's life.
Rush: That degree of affluence which, after taxes,
can only be temporarily sustained.
Loot --
Hillary: Anything which has been taken from someone,
generally unfairly.
Rush: Store merchandise stolen by force to supplement
government checks.
Military --
Hillary: An inefficient and wasteful system of
defense against aggression.
Rush: The first and often only place liberals go in
order to cut "waste."
Millionaire --
Hillary: Someone who has not yet paid his fair share.
Rush: Someone who is quietly investing overseas.
Motherhood --
Hillary: An institution which needs government help
now.
Rush: A conspiracy against N.O.W.
Multi-culturalism --
Hillary: An educational process which can help all of
our children to understand and respect one another.
Rush: A paradox of cooking wherein each ingredient of
the melting pot refuses to mix.
National Health Care --
Hillary: A brilliant plan which I created -- and
Republicans killed -- to provide fair and equal medical
coverage to all Americans, regardless of income.
Rush: A plan to make healthy people pay for everyone
who smokes too much, drinks too much, and watches Wheel of
Fortune while pigging out on potato chips and pork rinds.
Politically correct --
Hillary: Kind, compassionate, and helpful.
Rush: Hypersensitive, asinine, and in debt.
Politics --
Hillary: A failed method of governing which I intend
to streamline.
Rush: A shell game played by blind people.
Republican --
Hillary: A stumbling block which can be turned into a
stepping stone.
Rush: A person generally considered narrow-minded,
bigoted, insensitive. . .and happy.
Rookie --
Hillary: A newly hired cop.
Rush: An inexperienced Congressperson, not yet on the
take.
Sale --
Hillary: Something I correctly taught Chelsea to
attend.
Rush: A democratic event where merchandise is marked
up and then marked down in order to create the
politically-correct illusion of getting something for
nothing.
Senator --
Hillary: A servant of the people.
Rush: A pathological liar whose sociopathic tendency
toward wasting other people's money is augmented by a
narcissistic Napoleon complex.
Sex --
Hillary: The one thing Bill is really good at.
Rush: The one thing Bill is really good at.
Special Prosecutor --
Hillary: An independent investigator of the ethical
misconduct of members of the Bush and Reagan
administrations.
Rush: A mortal given God-like powers, unlimited
access to taxpayer funds, and an expense account of Biblical
proportions - all to try and implicate Republicans of crimes
against the Great Society.
Student Loan --
Hillary: Help for disadvantaged high school graduates
provided by way of the Democrats' continued commitment to
education.
Rush: College party money provided by the government
until the recipient can at last "graduate" to extended
unemployment benefits.
Welfare --
Hillary: My next project.
Rush: The buying of poor bastards' votes with money
other people have earned.
J. Lowe is an accomplished fiction writer and political commentator. His latest adventure novel, Fame Island, is available from Blackstoneaudio.com