As everyone knows, presidents don't work alone.  Their team - the White House staff, the Cabinet, political and party advisors - all make an enormous difference in policy and practice.

Imagine Bush without Cheney and Rumsfeld, and with Baker and Scowcroft instead.  Picture neocons out, pragmatists in.  To do so is to contemplate an alternate universe of tragically lost possibilities.

Republicans are going to hammer away at Barack Obama's relative inexperience as if he's going to be sitting alone in the White House, waiting for a phone call to make a decision that will decide the fate of Western Civilization.

But we all know it doesn't work like that.

Presidents - the good ones, anyone - surround themselves with good people to insure they receive multiple perspectives and response options on difficult issues, and to guarantee that their programs are effectively carried out.

By talking more about teamwork, you give an Obama Administration a seasoned look.  It's Obama, and Biden, and...just add your own favorite likely cabinet choices here (Richardson?  Hillary?), and a one-term senator in the White House suddenly doesn't look so scary.  Obama looks like a quarterback with a solid front line and a winning team.

And here's where it gets fun.  Who, exactly, is going to be serving on McCain's team?  People like Joe Lieberman? Phil Graham?  Lobbyists for Foreign Governments?  Karl Rove?  Cheney? The list just goes on and on...McCain should be asked to repudiate, and repudiate again, or to justify and explain how his choices aren't going to lead to four more years of the last eight.

You don't have to prove Obama's judgment trumps McCain's experience (though it clearly does).  Obama's not going to be alone, and he needs to let the voters know how solid, respected and reassuring his government will be.

The other guy isn't going to be alone, either.  It's time to remind everyone how scary that thought really is.