Former Barack Obama foreign policy aide Samantha Power became a household name when The Scotsman printed her not-so-off-the-record thoughts on Hillary Clinton – that she's "a monster" – and she forcibly resigned, but in fact, she's been a figure in elite cultural circles for much of her life. There was the Pulitzer-prize winning book on governments hiding from massacres, her supposed love triangle with a then-married law professor at U-Chicago, her tenure as a professor herself at Harvard, and the well-regarded reporting assignments from Bosnia and Rwanda. So when you join her for a date on her book tour – which she decided to continue, despite, or in part because of, the press attention – please be sure to honor her achievements by asking that she make out a signed copy to "That Monster, who stole my hopes of ever having a cabinet seat."

Barack Obama's foreign policy aide Samantha Power needs to brush up on the rules for talking to journalists. In an interview with The Scotsman, Power let her anger at Hillary Clinton's campaign get the best of her, revealing her true feelings about the competition.

"We f***** up in Ohio," she admitted. "In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win.

"She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Ms Power said, hastily trying to withdraw her remark.

Ms Power said of the Clinton campaign: "Here, it looks like desperation. I hope it looks like desperation there, too.

So why didn't the paper honor her mid-sentence request? It's not because they hate women, for one!

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