It has been a busy, ceremonial month for Hillary Clinton and her fixed grin. At last month's Sta... Can Hillary change her stri

It has been a busy, ceremonial month for Hillary Clinton and her fixed grin. At last month's State of the Union here. Attending the funeral of Coretta Scott King this month in Atlanta. Flying 8,000 miles last week for a wedding in Udaipur, India.

However, have no fear. At the funeral, Hillary demonstrated her skills in double-speak. Referring to the challenges in Mrs. King's life, the former first lady and current junior U.S. senator of New York asked, rhetorically, "Will we say when the call comes: 'Send me'?"

The celebration that took Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton to New Delhi was dubbed the "Big Fat Indian Wedding." It was between Sikh movie star and playboy Vikram Chatwal, son of a Manhattan millionaire and very generous Hillary supporter, and Hindu movie star Priya Sachdev from Bollywood, the center of India's film industry.

At the obsequies for Mrs. King, Sen. Clinton was in the company of President Bush, three of his predecessors and scores of notables. There was no follow-up to "Send me" from Mrs. Clinton. But we can be sure that the response has been planned by our new "Bollyqueen."

New York's Bollyqueen can, but won't, say, "If you send me, I have a wonderful, experienced campaign organization. In 2005, I raised $33 million in donations and have $17 million in the bank; I am central to issues such as abortion and gun control. I travel the world -- Morocco, Iraq and India -- to meet leaders and my jet-set friends. I have refused donations from Wal-Mart; and I trust my husband -- at least while I can see him."

To which Hillary might add that she knows many of the secrets of the White House -- exactly how to micromanage the unexpected scandals and ignore the voters, the "little people," in favor of the headline-making celebrities.

And at the wedding, which took a year to plan, our Hillary must have been happy: "Little people" were kept well away from the City Palace, the Devigarh Palace and the Maurya Sheraton.

The powerful and unpleasant were out in force with the Clinton family: Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran; P Diddy, Harlem's contribution to the world's culture; Lakshmi Mittal, India's and the world's biggest steelmaker; together with arms dealers, the movie stars, industrialists, bankers, models, and India's prime minister and most of his Cabinet.

But Hillary never did understand the realities of power. The woman is in a time warp of an earlier decade, fussing about programs that have lost their cutting edge. She has offered no innovative ideas that might make life safer and more secure for her constituency.

All of which adds up. Hillary Clinton lacks political charisma and fails to understand how her husband Bill effectively established her as a political force. And without effort. Bill Clinton has developed a circle of friends, including former President George H.W. Bush and Jim Baker with their Republican friends, his daughter Chelsea's chums and his security detail, charming each one.

This leaves Hillary embittered and us wondering why she can't change her temperament. She's like the wife of a Roman emperor wearing a power suit while droning on about children, villages and motherhood.

Hillary came up during the fighting days of feminism, fueled in more recent years by anger at Bill's successes with the ladies. She can't leave Bill; he is her door-opener, able to secure for her the Democrats' presidential nomination and perhaps even return her to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

No more off-the-cuff remarks mocking women who stay at home "baking cookies"; no more "vast, right-wing conspiracies" or likening of the House of Representatives to a plantation.

However, Hillary has not yet been returned to the U.S. Senate or given the role of Democrat standard-bearer. Her inventions of invincibility are beginning to disentangle and her strongest supporters -- the anti-war left wing of the Democratic Party and the radical labor unions -- are thoroughly alienated.

Hillary's political hope is that she can get out of Bill's shadow long enough to pretend that she has his charisma and charm without his weaknesses. If she can achieve this, not only the Democratic Party but many other misguided and misinformed people may forget her years of disasters, and mislay their loathing for her socialist politics and the suspicions that the name Clinton creates.

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