Note to Obama,Dems: run against 8years of Bush

and 6 years of an awful, corrupt Republican Congress.

Keep it simple. Don't get bogged down in complex details of energy policy - people won't understand it anyway. Don't even talk much about John McCain directly. Other people can and will talk about McCain's problems ( I can see the Ron Paul folks doing a great job of this...). This election is not about John McCain personally but a referendum on the past.

Stay away from personality issues (they are really irrelevant anyway) and the racial issue which won't be solved - completely - in this election.

Every week more news surfaces about Republican corruption and incompetence. In the last few weeks, we learned that Republican Senator Ted Stevens was involved in receiving gifts from an oil company. Also, Ron Suskind has just published his book "The Way of the World" which makes several serious accusations against the Bush administration. From another quarter, former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan has accused the White House of sending scripts and talking points to Fox News and other press outlets. Jane Mayer and Seymour Hersch are constantly writing about the abuses and blunders in the secret "war on terror". The list goes on and on. (Bob Woodward has a book coming out in September.)

So....

Just stick to the simple message that people can understand: McCain equals, = , another 4 years of George Bush's policies and FAILURE. Say that you will do everything differently - both in policy and in process. Say that the nation cannot afford 4 more years of corrupt, incompetent, morally bankrupt, dangerous Republican rule.