Hillary Clinton wants to be the leader of the most powerful country in the world, yet doesn't have a problem with lying, cheating and the infidelity within her own marriage. She has easily worked through scandal after scandal with Bill Clinton, while her own presidential ambitions seem to have created a two faced monster loser.

What's really going on in the mind of Hillary Clinton? It's sad to say but I believe she would say or do anything, regardless of who it effects or how repulsive it may be, to be the next U.S. President.

Divorce, politics and the Clinton ambitions

Bill Clinton wanted to divorce his wife in 1989 for another woman with whom he had fallen in love but Hillary Clinton forbade it, according to one of two new highly unflattering books about the former First Lady. The volumes confronted her 2008 presidential campaign yesterday with its primal fear: fresh allegations about her deeply complicated marriage.

A book by Carl Bernstein, the investigative reporter of Watergate fame, also claims that Mrs Clinton considered leaving her husband over his many infidelities when he was Governor of Arkansas. But as his presidential ambitions grew, she went to great lengths to hide his adultery, personally interviewing one woman to get a signed statement that she never had sex with him.

In a second book, Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by two New York Times reporters, the authors make a potentially highly damaging allegation with far more contemporary repercussions for Mrs Clinton: that she never read the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq in 2002 before she voted to authorise the war. The heart of her defence today over that vote was that she was convinced by the intelligence.

The book also claims that during Mr Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, Mrs Clinton oversaw a team to undermine Gennifer Flowers – who had gone public about her affair with the candidate – “until she is destroyed”.

Both biographies, obtained by The Washington Post and to be published next month, come as Mrs Clinton’s presidential campaign strives to focus voters on her achievements as First Lady and New York senator – and not on the vaudevillian aspects of her husband’s White House years. Her greatest vulnerability lies in voters rejecting a Clinton restoration because of past scandals.

Before he became president, and then during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Mr Clinton faced questions over a string of alleged relationships during his time as Arkansas Governor. One was with Marilyn Jo Jenkins, a beautiful employee of the Arkansas Power and Light Company.

Bernstein claims Mr Clinton was deeply in love with her and less than two years before had wanted to leave his wife to be with her. But Mrs Clinton refused, says Bernstein, telling Betsy Wright, the Governor’s chief of staff: “There are worse things than infidelity.”

It's obvious she wears the pants in her house, but now wants to wear the pants in the White House.