Clinton swings hard for Obama — with a ‘healthy’ challenge

Hillary Clinton came out strong for Barack Obama Tuesday night, but inserted a page in his playbook, or the playbook she wants, at the same time:

I can’t wait to watch Barack Obama sign a health care plan into law that covers every single American.

TPM points out this was said with utter sincerity, and since I missed the speech, I’ll go along with that.

Nonetheless, it’s a marker laid down for Obama that, if he is elected, Clinton’s going to be leading the Senate charge for something more than the halfway house not-so-national healthcare plan he touted during the primaries.

Meanwhile, Ron Fournier gives his early 2012 analysis to the speech.