Pelosi Brings a Knife to a Nuclear War

Speaker Pelosi gave the first major messaging speech of the convention just now, and if it's any indication of what we can expect, November 4 could be a loooong night.

Here's Pelosi's all purpose attack:

John McCain is Wrong

John McCain is wrong?  Seriously?  John McCain is Wrong!!!  This is the guy who has spent every waking moment trying to prove to America that Obama is the Anti-Christ.  

The beginnings of a gut punch narrative can be found below:
Team Obama meanwhile has launched two fairly strong lines of attack:  McCain is Out of Touch (how many houses do you have?), and "More of the Same".

I think right there we have a good explanation of why Democrats lose elections.  

Pelosi's speech was essentially 2 lists:

1.  Things the Democratic Congress has done
* Implementing the recommendations of 9/11 Commission
* Addressing Katrina and Rita Aid
* Tax Rebates
* Housing Industry Reform
* First increase in Min wage in 10 years
* First increase in fuel efficiency in 30 years
* First expansion of the GI bill in 64 years
* VA funding increases

and

2.  Issues on which Obama was right and McCain was wrong:
* Health Care and Children's Health Care
* Education
* Strong Middle Class
* High paying green collar jobs
* Responsible end to the war in Iraq

While all of the Congressional accomplishments are just fantastic, and while John McCain has been on the wrong side of basically all of them, this is no way to fight against a party so desperate it is willing to go nuclear.  

First of all, if America actually understood all of those wonderful Congressional accomplishments, Congress wouldn't have a 73% disapproval rating. In order to get approval, you have to show that Republicans who opposed these great accomplishments aren't just wrong, they have serious character flaws.  For example:

Republicans who oppose:  Implementing the recommendations of 9/11 Commission, are too greedy to fight terrorism.

Republicans who oppose: Addressing Katrina and Rita Aid, prove that conservative philosophy, in practice, kills Americans and destroys America.

Republicans who opposed Tax Rebates, and an increased minimum wage want you and your family  homeless and starving.

Republicans who opposed fuel efficiency increases want to leave the American economy weak and at the mercy of those who don't like us and don't share our values.

We all know that this should be a strongly Democratic year, and it likely will be, but Obama has allowed John McCain free reign for the past 3 weeks to drive up negative perceptions about Obama.  McCain hasn't improved his own numbers, but he's really hit Obama hard.

We don't need another Bush maverick in the White House who will go his own way and look out for the rich and the powerful.

We don't need another Bush maverick going his own way on the national stage, embroiling us in wars we don't need to fight.

We don't need another Bush maverick.

If you've got a sharper attack, use it.  If I'm a McCain staffer watching Pelosi's Milquetoast attack, I'm laughing and cheering another moment when Democrats have squandered the opportunity to drive up my negatives.

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