THE REIGN OF THE "QUEEN OF HEARTS"
HILLARY CLINTON , 2007-2013

(From A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE)
PART ONE

To say the presidency of Hillary Clinton was controversial would be a gross understatement. Indeed, it is hard to imagine any other presidency, even her husband's, which even remotely approached the level of fierce debate which Hillary's has generated over the past century plus. Every action, and reaction, and non-action, she took, every speach she gave, and even every gown she wore during her six turbulent years in the White House has been minutely scrutinized by virtually every political and social historian who has written since she left office in 2013. Amazingly, even today there is precious little consensus on both her and her years in charge of the American state.

Before examing the various positions of historians toward Clinton, we offer a brief catalog of Clinton's acheivements in her first three months in the White House:

Pardon of all political prisoners.
Recall of all troops from Syria and Iraq, suspension of air war against Iran.
Passage of Restoration of Fair and Balanced News Act of 2007.
Passage of Electoral Renewal Act of 2007, setting special federal elections for President and congress on March 15, 2008.
Passage of Danish and Cheese Forgiveness Act of 2008, re-establishing diplomatic and trade relations with Denmark and lifting the embargo on Havarti cheese.
With Oprah Winfrey as cohost, intitation of televised weekly talk program from the Oval Office in the White House.
Declaration of Hershey Kisses as national chocolate.


As benign as the above may appear, a legion of writers over the past twelve decades have found what they see as profound misteps and corrupt political manuevering by Clinton even in those first three months. Others have seen in her actions a genuine and selfless attempt by Clinton to rebuild the very moral foundation of the nation.

By way of example, we offer the following two divergent views toward the first months of the reign of America's first female president. First, from Ralph Reed, a near contemporary of Clinton, writing in 2024 (PILLARS OF SALT, Burning Bush Press, pp. 113-114):

“Without shame Clinton cynically manipulated her sudden burst of self-manufactured popularity after the fall of Falwell ( which she actually had very little hand in) to force the Congress into early elections. No doubt realizing her popularity would wane once the nation grasped her true intentions, she bulldozed the still dazed Senate and House into accepting an election in just five months, an election in which every single house and senate seat would be at stake. The appalled Republicans knew the risk; if Hillary's popularity remained high there was the likelyhood the Democrats would capture large majorities in each body. Awed by the 88% approval rate which the liberal polls claimed Clinton enjoyed, suddenly timid Republican leadership fell before her clever attack (plotted by her husband). Recognizing the naked grab for power for what is was, cooler and braver Republican heads tried to stop the stampede toward the Hillary bandwagon but failed. Alas, the worst came to pass and the Congressional Republicans were decimated in March as a rabble of secular humanists, atheists, homosexuals and radicals claiming to be moderate "Clinton democrats" siezed control of the levers of government in March 2008.

Pending the elections, Clinton insured she took only steps which would not diminish her standings in the polls. However greviously it injured U.S. foreign policy for decades to come, her craven and abject abandonment of the mideast struggle for freedom proved popular with a public grown weary of war. Her rapproachment with the Danes pleased both the European and the American elites. Her strangely popular sellout to the Hershey chocolate interests was a dark harbinger of the corruption to come. Her weekly television ”chats” with Oprah Winfrey, an obscenely wealthy black entertainer and former welfare queen, were perfectly staged yet utterly devoid of any substance yet they soothed a nation still shaken by the unfortunate events following George W. Bush's suspicious bout of mental illness.

Despite the smiling face she presented to the citizenry during her televised Christmas Day White House extravaganza (at a cost to the taxpayers of three million dollars), in the winter gloom she, her husband and their minions were plotting nothing less than the total destruction of the American republic and the imposition of a Stalinist regime.”

This opposing view is from G.D. Liddy, Jr., writing in The New 'New Republic' in 2033 (”Setting Things Straight”, June 3, 2033). It is almost as if he's describing a different Hillary Clinton altogether:

“It is nigh impossible today to properly appreciate the profound joy which flooded throughout America more than a quarter century ago when Hillary Clinton, a true modern day Joan d'Arc, routed the Danes and the minions of the United States for Christ. The terrible threat of theocratic oppression was vanquished by one extraordinary woman. Congress was restored; America was saved from the ruin which had been creeping over the country since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. The American dream of an end to racism, sexism, ageism, classism, militarism, homophobism, sinophobism (and the near undending slew of all those other dispicable "isms" dogging human kind) was reborn.

That Hillary did not desire the Presidency cannot be doubted. Twice she risked, perhaps, her own personal safety by refusing the roaring crowd what it so fiercely demanded. As she wrote in her memoirs, she would have much preferred to return to her home in Arkansas and spend time with her husband and her beloved grandchild. Like George Washington before her, she reluctantly accepted what amounted to election by aclamation only because of her pure love for, and devotion to, her country.

Her first 100 days were brilliant. Ending what had become America's second Vietnam, she pulled all our forces out of the middle east quagmire. The cynical and repugnant Republican attempts in January and February of 2008 to brand her a traitor failed. America was once against respected by the rest ofthe world, even, finally, by the French. Quoting Lincoln's lines from the second innaugral (”with carity for all...), she ordered the release of all political prisoners held in federal or state custody and officially forgave the Danes. How hard it must have been for her to see those vile right-wing traitors, many who had wanted to imprison her (or worse), walk free. With a great female Afro-Amereican at her side, she spoke often, and simply, from her heart, to the American people from the White House in talks reminiscent of FDR's fireside chats. Even her adoption of the Hershey kiss was a pure stroke of genuis; America was starved for simple sweetness. Quite clearly, those first 100 days were a season of love, and forgiveness, and joy, and saw a begining of the hard, slow work of rebuilding America.”

As the Republicans had feared, the March election proved for them a disaster. The sentiment in the country was overwhelmingly pro-Clinton and pro-democrat. Gary Bauer, the party's standard bearer for president, became so depressed he literally stopped campaigning two weeks prior to the election. Over a hundred Republican house members "retired" in late February and early March. Another two dozen converted to the democratic party.

The early returns on March 15, 2008, told the story. Hillary won in a record landslide with 74.7% of the popular vote. By the morning of March 16, 2008, the resurgent democrats held 352 house seats and 73 in the senate. Virtually every democrat elected that night was fiercely loyal to Hillary Clinton.

However it may now be viewed, Clinton's tenure in office prior to the elections of March 2008 was merely the lull before the storm. With the federal government firmly in her grip, backed by overwhelming democratic majorities in both houses of congress, she elected to pursue a new, more activist agenda. Beginning almost the very day after the election, she set to reshaping American society and law, and even the Constitution itself, in profound and, for many, troubling ways.

MARCH 16, 2008

Hillary's radical new agenda took the country by storm. There was serious secession talk in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. Cooler heads prevailed in the three state legislatures when it became obvious that three landlocked, under populated states largely dependent on federal largesse could not hope to go it alone. Still, anger bubbled up from the western grassroots. In the east, however, President Clinton's plan to outlaw all firearms was surprisingly popular. Whatever else was true, it was a heady time. Politics and policy was talked about everywhere.
Hillary, saint or sinner (or the devil, or worse), that was the universal question.
But if America was stunned by Hillary's initial proposals to ban guns and repeal Bush's tas cuts, they would be even more suprised in the weeks and months to come. In May she proposed a change in the first amendment to allow congress to ban "hate speech". By executive order she removed all federal restrictions on abortions and quickly led congress in restoring medicaid funding for abortion. Also at her behest, congress made it a felony, punishable by five years, to "intimidate, harrass, bother, or annoy any woman seeking an abortion or to attempt to prevent her, by any means, including verbal inducement, from obtaining abortion services." When this statute was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2009 Hillary and the democrat congress added four justices to the court. The next year the statute was upheld 7-4. In June of 2008 the President pushed the "Equal Marriage Opportunity Act" through the house and senate effectively legalizing same sex marriage across the county. This time it was Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama that festered with talk of civil war. By July 4th, 2008, as the nation paused to celebrate its birthday, it seemed about to burst at the seams.

In memorium