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“Hillary Is Poised to
Make the ‘Impossible Possible’ — for Herself and for Women in
America
By Rebecca Traister
(By the very nature of Women's history it's a complicated but it's also remarkably
consistent...)
Selected Excerpts:
It begins here: On
Wednesday morning, in the minutes before I called her out of the
blue, 69-year-old Nancy Pietrafesa said she was thinking of the day
she met Hillary Rodham. She was considering, she said, whether she’d
known upon their first meeting in 1969 how extraordinary Hillary was.
“It feels like 12 minutes ago,” Pietrafesa said. “I was
literally just wondering, Was it only me that she stuck out
to? No, I guess not.”
Rodham and Pietrafesa met
through Pietrafesa’s friend David Rupert, whom Hillary was dating
at the time. The women were introduced at a dinner in Cambridge and
hit it off instantly, spending weekends with David, a conscientious
objector who lived in Vermont. “The thing that really stands out in
my mind, what with it being so fucking long ago,” said Pietrafesa,
“was that she was the first to move forward on virtually any
project anyone had going. She was so appealing to me because I prefer
your basic outspoken, gutsy human being, male or female. And she was
a terribly kind, attentive friend. She’s the person who makes the
phone calls, and she’s the one who gets worried about someone’s
surgery. She does all that shit, and she always has. Always has.”
As she told this story,
the years seemed to blur, and Pietrafesa thought that maybe she was
thinking of another car...
The expanding and contracting sense of
time — the feeling that Hillary Rodham’s youth was 12 minutes
ago, and also so deep in the ancient past — reflects one of the
surreal qualities of this historical moment, at which Hillary Clinton
has become the first woman nominated by a major party for the
presidency. It’s an event that seems to have been in the works for
so long that it might as well have been prophesied, yet also to have
taken so damn long. And this in turn reminds us of the strange
distortions of history: Between Clinton and her predecessor, Barack
Obama, our country’s first black president, it feels like the
pileup of history-making has been so fast. And yet it’s been
centuries of exclusion and impossibility that led us
to Thursday night, when Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed
the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, wearing the white
of the suffragists and delivering a speech that built to a clear,
confident crescendo, one that referred both to the country’s past
and to the future she is promising: “I am here to tell you
tonight,” Clinton said, “progress is possible.”
“Hillary Clinton’s
candidacy is very resonant for me, personally,” Wisconsin
representative Gwen Moore told me at an Emily’s List party on
Wednesday. “It pains me to see Hillary shouldering the burden of
our gender for all of us.” Moore’s life, she said, “is a
trifecta. I am black, female, and come from a low-income community. I
am also someone who got pregnant on my 18th birthday, so an
awful lot of my destiny was determined by my gender. …
“We’re not in the
positions yet of leadership and power,” Rodham said in 1969,
speaking at 21, as if it were only a matter of time. In her speech,
Hillary declared that the challenge “is to practice politics as the
art of making what appears to be impossible possible.”... “When
I asked the class at our rehearsal what it was they wanted me to say
for them, everyone came up to me and said, ‘Talk about trust, talk
about the lack of trust both for us and the way we feel about
others.’” The irony here is striking: Trust is precisely what so
many Americans say they do not have in Hillary Clinton, yet her
classmates trusted her to be their history-making messenger. Then
there is her meditation on perseverance. Citing a line
from T.S. Eliot’s poem “East Coker,” young Hillary
noted that “there’s only the trying, again and again and again;
to win again what we’ve lost before.” It is a line that seems
tied by an invisible thread to Michelle Obama’s estimation of
Clinton from earlier this week, that “Hillary Clinton has never
quit on anything in her life.”
“Fear is always with
us,” Rodham continued, before waving it aside. “But we just don’t
have time for it. Not now.”
Wellesley recently
unearthed the audio of the 1969 ...Watching her
tonight, I could hear the traces of that young voice still, the
echoes and the parallels between then and now, especially in her
refusal to let fear take hold. Trump, Clinton said, “wants us to
fear the future and fear each other.” Just as her 21-year-old self
insisted, this 68-year-old proclaimed, “We are not afraid.” She
still does not have time for it.
It ends here: Tonight,
she came one step closer to making the impossible possible.
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