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About Hillary, Edward Klein said: "I think Elizabeth Moynihan, Senator Moynihan's wife, had it right when she told me that Hillary is duplicitous." He added, "Hillary acts as though she is chosen by God, and that gives her the right to use any means to justify her ends. If she becomes president, it's going to be deja Clinton all over again. And as far as I'm concerned, we've already had the Clinton presidency for its full constitutional eight years." (Klein 165) It was during this first term of the Clinton administration that Hillary Clinton was most dominant as co-chief executive: "her aides in the East Wing put up signs proclaiming: Hillary for President! West Wing staffers thought it was a joke. The signs started coming down after the Travelgate and health-care fiascos." (Klein 42)

Dick Morris, the president's long-time strategist and confidante, said, "Bill learns from his mistakes. Hillary doesn't make any." For Hillary Clinton, power is an aphrodisiac; any major policy initiative threatens, and any statement is surreptitiously laced with duplicity. This ability to play both ends against the middle is implicit when we view her stance on the war in Iraq. Clinton would not confirm whether she had read the 90-page, classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, according to Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. Her demarche was to vote in the Senate for the invasion of Iraq, revealing the Clintonesque raison d'etre to be shameless in its vacillation, opportunistic in ideology, and tin-eared on ethical issues.

Hillary and Bill Clinton are no doubt a formidable political union ipso facto, a modern-day Cleopatra and Mark Anthony consumed with similar political ambition, passion and ruthlessness. Many may argue that they eclipse the impact of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt in terms of American sensibilities, but their union is plagued by extreme bouts of toxicity, poisoning the good and laying waste to individuals, political parties and the country. Bill Clinton's impeachment and Hillary's poker-faced denials in the saga would have many on both sides of the political divide ruing a possible Clintonesque volte-face. Indeed, there is a common thread to criticism leveled at Hillary Clinton's "eyes wide shut" approach to her husband's philandering. The avowed feminist Barbara Ehrenreich calls her "disturbingly complicit in her husband's excesses. It seems

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