By VictorM: Here's a passage from the Army Times (bold is mine):

For generations, soldiers have come back from war with mementos of time spent in battle: The canteen that got them through long days in the Vietnamese jungle; the Lugar they wrested from the German who jumped into their foxhole; the torn flack jacket that showed they were among the lucky who survived the D-Day invasion of the Normandy beaches.

What's the point of that quote? Look at the bold text. See how they spelled "flack"? I point this out because replying to a press release by Barack Obama who used the term "flack jacket", Senator John McCain tried to be a smartass by ending his reply with this: "By the way, Senator Obama, it's a 'flak' jacket, not a 'flack' jacket."

Well, Mister I'll Even Kiss Falwell's Ass In the Grave To Be President, the words "flak" and "flack" are both perfectly correct, not only as evidenced by the selling in the Army Times, but according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.

No wonder a majority of Republicans aren't happy with their choice of candidates. How petty and stupid was it to pick on the spelling of one word, only to be proved wrong. Sure, he wanted to show that Obama doesn't know military terms, but the little gag backfired on the idiot.

This could be McCain's "potatoe" moment.

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