Speaking in a high school gym in Virginia,

Speaking in a high school gym in Virginia, Hillary Clinton asks an audience of students, folks who work nearby, and yes, a whole lot of women, if they’re ready for change. (They are.) She follows up with a good seven or nine sentences about the kind of America that’s possible.

“I offer a very different vision about what we can be in America,” she concludes. “I think we can be whatever we set our minds to be.”

If imitation is the best form of flattery, somewhere Barack Obama is blushing.

Phoebe Connelly is a former web editor of the Prospect. Previously, she was managing editor of In These Times. She writes on political culture, human rights, and feminism.