If I were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or some other group hoping to elect legislators who were less obedient to the agenda of organized labor, I would be pretty pleased that the AFL-CIO is spending about $500,000 for a Labor Day advertising campaign that basically amounts to, “hooray for us.”

There’s nothing particularly wrong with the ad; it’s just so strikingly generic that for the first half it could be for a phone company or life insurance or business services conglomerate. They want folks to text “STRONGER” to a particular address, presumably to build up a list of phone numbers and e-mail addresses, but I don’t see much in the ad that would make me pick up the BlackBerry and do it. Certainly there’s nothing in it to make you prefer one candidate or another or even a particular idea, other than, “hooray for hard work and teamwork.”

The Wonder Pets would approve.