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"FacebookPinterest\n\nI think I've found an empty room, an actual oasis, in the Huffington Post's Oasis\u2014Arianna's new age-y retreat for convention-going yogis, health nuts, and spa-goers at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina\u2014when in walks Nancy Pelosi, dressed in a violet seersucker pantsuit and jumbo pearls, surrounded by a phalanx of aides and bloggers.\n\nJust moments ago she and Arianna Huffington were gliding through the Pom-juice-sipping crowds in the spa lobby; now she's settling in to a white cushioned chair beside me at a small table decorated with glittering tea candles and a large bouquet of ivory flowers. Pelosi is supposed to be here\u2014she's giving a briefing to invited bloggers after a quick hit on HuffPost Live. I am not one of those bloggers. But no one seems to notice that I'm not supposed to be there, so I open up my laptop and begin taking notes as one of the most powerful women in American history talks about the presidential race.\n\n \"Our country's better off than before President Obama. Obama's been an extraordinary president in an extraordinary time, pulled our country back from a great depression,\" she says. She is responding to the Republican homage to Reagan's \"Are you better off than you were four years ago?\"\n\n\"Mitt Romney wants to take us back down that path. The president wants to go forward,\" she says. \"What relevance does that question come from somebody who's an advocate of the policies that brought us to where we are today?\"\n\nBut, I say, still thinking of the man who helped me rent a car earlier today, a man who is definitely not better off than he was four years ago, \"The reason that that question resonates with individual people\u2014which is why you're hearing it so much\u2014is the people who don't feel like they're doing better off.\" What does she say to those people, and how does she convince them to vote for him now?\n\n Pelosi blamed Republican misinformation and special interest spending. \"Let me just say money has a big impact. You repeat a misrepresentation enough and people and they have tried to put all of this on President Obama ... it's hard to refute misrepresentations they're putting forward. The fact is President Obama is running for reelection and he has to show how he's going to take the country another place.\"\n\n\"We'd like to say we can do that better with a Democratic Congress, but it's a hard sell to people to say you would have been worse, there would have been 15% unemployment if we hadn't passed the Recovery Act and other rescue efforts. It's a hard sell, and if you don't have a job, what difference does it make to you?\" she says. \"I trust in the leadership of the president to frame it in his way, to connect with the American people.\"\n\nBut, she says, \"some of them are just never going to be there. It's no use beating your head up against the wall. They just have other issues.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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