Hillary's Red Meat for Iowa

Hillary Clinton saved her most energetic appearance of this Labor Day weekend sweep through New Hampshire and Iowa for last.

She just addressed a hall full of union members at the Des Moines Labor Day "Solidarity Fest" bellowing, "Are you ready for change in America?"

She skipped the more nuanced talk about winding down the war in Iraq that she employed earlier in the day, going with, "Are you ready to end the war in Iraq and bring our young men and women home?"

The applause was loud and sustained.

Clinton spoke at length about improving health care for working Americans and said she would unveil her plan "to cover everybody" in two weeks, but said it was first crucial to articulate a cost-cutting plan, which she did months ago. (Clinton supporters say John Edwards' health care plan is too expensive and that Obama's plan doesn't provide for universal coverage.)

And while Obama continues to cast himself as the election's outsider, Clinton, too, tried too distance herself from the image of a beltway insider.

"It's becoming almost unbelievable what is happening in Washington" she said, railing against "cronyism" in the capital.

She balanced that line by arguing that instead of trashing the entire system, she is the only candidate with sufficient experience of working in the system to change it.

And she continued to argue that her election – and by implication, not Obama’s – would be the greatest history-making event.

Electing a woman, she said, would break "the last and biggest glass ceiling."