" swim in the water "

- I bet you are not supposed to take that literally lol.

Basically what he said in the quote

- more human intelligence and spies.

Although he hasn't being impressive in the past days , that I agree with.

We also need people who can walk on the land

But most importantly we need someone who can talk
like a President

I could have fun with this all day, thank you.

A fine example of why we must expose media lies and BS. They protected Bush from his own words for years. Never forget the MSM will be on McCain's side.

This is a silly post.

Swimming in the water is obviously metaphorical.  He is saying we need more spies in the field.

Deliberately misinterpreting a clear statement and ridiculing him for your misinterpretation is just dumb.

There are plenty of things to attack McCain for, but this is not one.

Latest Gallup Poll (6/13):Obama 49%, McCain 46%

And yes, I'm pissed. We should be winning in a cake walk this year, and yet we've got a candidate with more baggage than an airport carousel. Gas at $4/gallon, economy is in a mess, and the GOP nominee seems more feeble by the day--folks,this presidential election SHOULD NOT EVEN BE CLOSE!!

With a Joe Biden or John Edwards, we'd already be planning the innauguration. But our great Democratic party--which can snatch defeat from victory bettern that anyone--is in a statistical dead heat with some tired and clueless old man.

Among the policy questions in the poll, respondents see McCain as better equipped to handle the Iraq conflict by more than 10 points.

When I've expressed these frustrations to fellow Democrats, they just gleefully talk about the legions of footsoldiers they're about to dispatch across the country. Wow...I'll sleep easier now.

They're not as sanguine when I explain to them what 527's are, and what happens once they go to work. Maybe John Kerry would be willing to tell them.

"We need better human intelligence. We need people who can swim in the water," McCain said.

Why is this quote so unreasonable?

McCain is RIGHT.  We need more human intelligence.  
And it's perfectly obvious that "swimming in the water" means that to get that intelligence, we need people who can blend in with the local surroundings.

Quit cherry-picking polls.  The poll of pols has obama up by about 5.  Rasmussen had him up 6 today.

Second, why do you think Edwards or Biden (!) would be up more in the polls?  Given recent history in presidential elections, 5 points is quite a bit.  Moreover, McCain is quite a bit more popular than the Republican party as a whole so don't go pointing to the generic dem and republican numbers.  McCain was doing better than  five points against Hillary and would presumably be doing something similar against others.

Third, calm down and wait a bit.  Obama is still consolidating the party.  When he is pulling in 90% of dems, he will be polling significantly higher.

Fourth, that poll was not within the margin of error. It is not a statistical dead heat(even if you insist on only considering one poll for some reason).

Finally, if you are looking at the lay of the land and giving McCain anywhere close to fifty-fifty odds at this point, then you just want to be pissed about something.  Can we lose?  Sure.  Is it likely.  Nah.

 This is a total public relations stunt from McSame.

 The one sentence that speaks for the McSame message getting out:  "2,000 people in attendance at the college's Pemberton campus gym."

 The guy can't draw flies on his own.  He NEEDS these townhalls to get his face out there with REAL crowds:  Obama Crowds!

 Obama was More than fair in his counter proposal with the 2 extra topic debates.  As usual lately, McSame has overplayed his weak hand, and Obama has called, and raised when needed.

Go DEMOCRATS!

I'm but I have got to laugh. We look like fools actually taking "swimming in the water" literally. It was an OBVIOUS metaphor...I mean come on...

In the one poll 78% of the respondents said that they would vote for an African American. But 58% didn't think their friends or relative will.Two  problems as I see them: one, we have talked our selves into Obama's over rated prowress. Two we are underestimating McCain. It is going to be a very close race and we should stop listening to our own sonar and reachout beyond our sewing circle.

Maybe it means to be able to speak the language and blend into culture of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

But I think McCain has water on the brain.

Please stop making stupid arguments like this.  The analogy is clear; we need spies who fit into the local surroundings.

You are only giving fodder to the freepers.