This is just great stuff.  This is a preview of the extraordinary leadership she will exhibit during the general election.  She not only strongly defended Barack Obama against George Bush's nonsense attack, but she's now working with him to just destroy John McSame.  In the last 48 hours I've become convinced that HRC might just end up to be Obama's strongest surrogate in the fall.  She has the ability, as we've seen time and time again, to deliver a devastating attack on her opponent:

FRANKFORT, KY - With the Democratic nomination all but wrapped up, Barack Obama has moved past his primary battle with Hillary Clinton, beginning to implement his general election strategy. But even as she slides towards irrelevance, the New York Senator has, in her own way, joined Obama in general election mode -- increasingly aiming her rhetorical cannons not at her primary opponent, but at John McCain.

Clinton delivered her sharpest attack yet on McCain's economic policies - saying the Arizona Senator is "laying out an agenda on the campaign trial that is nothing less than four more years of George Bush economics." And that, as all Democrats know, is pretty bad. "I don't know that we've had a worse president in American history," Clinton said of Bush.

She ripped McCain's Bush-like tax policies, saying "you really have to work hard to have a tax plan that is more tilted toward the wealthy than President Bush's tax plan. But somehow Senator McCain has figured out a way to do it."

She blasted his Bush-like plans to privatize Social Security - saying "that would be a disaster" - and his Bush-like disinterest in the housing crisis, saying "like President Bush, Senator McCain refused to acknowledge the home mortgage crisis until it spiraled out of control. He has spent his time blaming homeowners."

And she lit into his Bush-like corporate agenda, saying "Senator McCain decides Americas most pressing economic priority is tax cuts for our largest corporations. I don't know that you can be more out of touch than that."

"Senator McCain's economic policy boils down to this - don't just continue driving our nation in the wrong direction, put your foot on the accelerator and gun it," she told a cheering crowd.

"It's hard to imagine, but Senator McCain and President Bush are like two sides of the same coin, and it doesn't amount to a whole lot of change."

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/ 17/clinton-moving-to-general-election-st rategy/

Hillary has Barack's back, and she's made such a tough pivot over the last few days.  She's not only done it gracefully, she's done it in such a way that she will be a dominant surrogate for Barack Obama in helping destroy John McSame.

Thank you for this, Hillary.  Thank you.

McSame, you are done.  Done.