Pelosi: McCain’s campaign attacks ‘bankrupt’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chided John McCain on Friday for invoking her name in attacking Barack Obama on the campaign trail.

“It was a compliment in some ways to have him use me. I mean, it was really almost bankrupt that he would have to resort to something — most people don't even know who I am,” Pelosi told reporters during her weekly press conference.

“My daughter, who was covering McCain on the campaign trail, she said, ‘Mother, you should hear the boos you get when your name is announced,’” Pelosi added, speaking of her daughter Alexandra, who was filming a documentary on the campaign for HBO.

Pelosi joked that McCain “had very complimentary things to say about me” and insisted that no bad blood remains between the two.

“I've worked with Sen. McCain in the past. I look forward to continuing that. And you know what it is in a campaign — I don't have to tell you the kinds of things that are said,” she noted. “It's part of the campaign. He's back. We have to look forward.”

Pelosi, though, threw in a dig at her GOP rivals, saying that it is easier to forgive after a winning year.

“Perhaps because I'm so satisfied with the outcome of the election, with winning over 20 seats in the House and so many in the Senate, yet to be determined, and electing Barack Obama as the next president of the United States, all of that is incidental,” she said.