Excoriating Republicans who embrace “trickle-down economics” and hailing a handful of Democratic presidents, one her husband and another who ended her presidential dream seven years ago, Hillary Clinton delivered a campaign kickoff speech today that demonstrated she will wholeheartedly embrace, rather than avoid, President Obama’s two terms in office.

Ms. Clinton promised to rewrite the tax code for lower-income Americans, crack down on Wall Street and back an amendment to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision–and embark on an era of unapologetic progressive governance in the spirit of Franklin Roosevelt.

“The Republicans twice cut taxes for the wealthiest, borrowed money from other countries to pay for two wars and family incomes dropped,” Ms. Clinton said at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island. “There may be some new voices in the presidential Republican primary. But they’re all singing the same old song.”

“A song called ‘Yesterday,'” she added, referring to the Beatles hit. “You know the one. ‘All our troubles look like they’re here to stay and we need a place to hideaway.'” (She spoke, rather than sang, the lyrics.)

Republicans have been attacking Ms. Clinton, the former secretary of state under Mr. Obama, for her close ties to an increasingly unpopular Obama administration. Today, she appeared to validate at least some conservative criticism that she would be seeking Mr. Obama’s third term–about two minutes into her speech, after noting the Roosevelt legacy “lifted up a nation,” she said Mr. Obama, along with Bill Clinton, are guided “by a fundamental belief that real and lasting prosperity must be built by all and shared by all.” (Mr. Clinton, along with their daughter Chelsea, joined her on stage after the speech was completed.)

Ms. Clinton said she was asked many times how she could go work for Mr. Obama after he dealt her such a stinging defeat in the Democratic primary.

“How could you and President Obama work together after you fought so hard against each other in that long campaign?” Ms. Clinton said, repeating the question. “President Obama asked me to serve and I accepted because we both love our country.that’s how we do it in America.”