Wow Romney last week, Clinton & Obama this week. McCain is really going at it and I have to say I LOVE IT.

Anyway McCain said today of Clinton & Obama’s vote on Iraq funding:
“This vote may win favor with MoveOn and liberal primary voters, but it’s the equivalent of waving a white flag to al Qaeda.”

Which lead to Obama releasing a statement saying (From The Hill):

“And if there ever was a reflection of that it’s the fact that Senator McCain required a flack jacket, 10 armored Humvees, two Apache attack helicopters, and 100 soldiers with rifles by his side to stroll through a market in Baghdad just a few weeks ago.”

McCain’s retort?

“While Senator Obama’s two years in the U.S. Senate certainly entitle him to vote against funding our troops, my service and experience combined with conversations with military leaders on the ground in Iraq lead me to believe that we must give this new strategy a chance to succeed because the consequences of failure would be catastrophic to our nation’s security” adding “By the way, Senator Obama, it’s a ‘flak’ jacket, not a ‘flack’ jacket.”

Meanwhile a McCain aide also added Obama “wouldn’t know the difference between an RPG & a bong” which played to Obama’s early revelations that he experimented with drugs in his life.

Update: As a user on Digg pointed out the American Dictionary does say you can use flack & flak interchangeably. But I did make the following point not so much in defense of McCain as just explaining where I think he was coming from:

I think technically though McCain was criticizing Obama’s lack of military knowledge & experience. The military, as far as I can tell spells it flak and so Obama’s team not taking the time to know that would be considered further evidence in McCain’s jab.

I often talk to people in different branches of the armed service who share their annoyance that civilians don’t take the time to really understand or show knowledge of their world. Little things like understanding ranks and the importance of medals seems to be irritating. Especially when you come politically from a place where you say “I know what troops must be feeling or thinking” about an issue.