I don’t know what Hillary Clinton really thinks of Barack Obama. I don’t know whether she still wants to run for president should he lose.

But last night she gave a good speech, and it’s hard to imagine her supporters not taking her advice.
Even if some are still resisting.

Key lines—
“I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me?”

And…

“I haven’t spent the past 35 years in the trenches, advocating for children, campaigning for universal health care, helping parents balance work and family, and fighting for women’s rights here at home and around the world, to see another Republican in the White House squander our promise of a country that really fulfills the hopes of our people.”

She ended by recalling Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave and Union spy who moved to upstate New York and helped other slaves to freedom.

The refrain should be familiar to anyone who followed Clinton’s Senate race. She used it often, so often that reporters who covered her can still quote it. Say “dogs,” they’ll say, “keep going.”

Here’s the full quote: “And on that path to freedom, Harriet Tubman had one piece of advice. If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If they’re shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going.”

PHOTO: (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)