Showing our colors, are we, John? What an asshole.

From Media Matters: "flack jacket," as Obama's release spelled it, appears on dozens of official military websites...

As Media Matters noted, MSNBC congressional correspondent Mike Viqueira subsequently reported that "flack" is an "alternative to the spelling of 'flak,' " citing Webster's New World Dictionary. In addition to Viqueira, on the May 25 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, CNN congressional correspondent Dana Bash also reported that the term "apparently can be spelled both ways."

Indeed, Media Matters compiled numerous examples of military websites using the same spelling as Obama. Furthermore, on November 19, 2004, McCain himself entered email messages into the Congressional Record in which former Secretary of the Air Force James G. Roche wrote: "I refuse to wear my flack jacket backwards!" While McCain offered numerous emendations and clarifications to the text of the email, he gave no indication that he thought "flack" was misspelled.

Full story here:

http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/200705290008?src=other

Is there a substantial difference between a Senator voting against a funding bill, and the President vetoing an approved funding bill? Can't you make the argument that the GW voted against the first bill, after it had made its way through the House and Senate? I'm confused...

Obama's substitution of "flack jacket" for "flak jacket" was most likely a Freudian slip attributable to his inability to completely repress expression of his recognition of John "Bomb Bomb" McCain's energetic service to the cause of imperialist warfare, from the corpse-strewn rice paddies of Vietnam to the blood-filled craters in the sands of Iraq.

The reaction of John McCain to the speech in Chicago by Obama was the most significant development of this dust-up. It is, even at this late stage, both stupefying but understandable that Romney and McCain would paint 2 Democratic candidates as unpatriotic. It is encouraging to their opposition that Obama can come roaring back.

But John McCain responded to this speech with a press release of absolute significance. His main thrust was inconsequential, merely further besmirching of Obama's stance and character. But then he added, as a twist of the blade he assumed, a snarky aside correcting a spelling error in the hard copy of Obama's transcribed speech.

A marvel, isn't it, how lives unfold? With this one little aside, John McCain has signaled to us that he's done. Over.

Everyone knows that Obama didn't write the damn hard copy and that an insignificant typo is the error of an intern or copyist. To remark upon it would be a sign of pure desperation but to say desperation implies that some hope remains. To make the crack is the sure sign of the depleted bully. And not the playground bully but the back-of-the-class, cowardly kind, the Karl Roves of the world.

It's the "tell". To resort to this means there's nowhere else to go. Anything else he has to say in now empty air, inconsequential. John McCain is simply a rat in a box, waiting for the sharp stick to descend. And he knows it even if he's not yet aware of it.

Good-bye, John.

How does McCain know what a bong is?

That last comment wasn't racially motivated or anything...

I mean, I know about his past, but come on... No one would say that about Hillary, and I'm sure few other candidates can really claim to have never touched the stuff.

Use of the term "flack jacket" in relation to John McCain makes perfect sense. He has been a flack for the Administration's dumb war and misguided execution of it since the beginning. Every day when he gets dressed, he dons his "flack jacket."

"Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong."

They couldn't call him a n****r so they call him a pothead, because that's the one group left that can be dehumanized and discriminated against by anyone, with complete social approval.

But look at who actually goes to jail for cannabis. And look at how these laws began.

What were the newspapers saying back then?

Reefer makes a darkie look a white man in the eye.

That's one of the big reasons why they made it illegal back then.

And look how close this sentiment to the slapping down of Obama. He's being slapped down for speaking out. It's no wonder that they invoke "reefer" in his slapping down.

That old fear among racists back in the 1920s that cannabis made black people less controllable by conditioned fear has been validated in laboratory experiments on rodents.

It's the cannabinoid receptors that appear to regulate the phenomenon of conditioned fear. Cannabinoid supplementation helps rodents overcome lab-induced conditioned fear.

So it could be good to hit the bong if you're living in a place with a lot of RPG's.

Or with a lot of racists who don't want you to look them in the eye.

It is "FlugabwehrKannone"!!! So there!

I want to give Obama and Clinton props for their votes against funding the war, but I know that in both cases there was considerable political calculation and not the kind of principled decision which Feingold arrived at with ease. Neither Obama nor Clinton announced their vote beforehand, let alone turn to their caucus and try to lead them to the same decision (so far as I am aware).

However, I think Clinton is on the right track with a Congressional declaration to end the war. To me that is an excellent legalistic strategy. The president can veto such a declaration -- in which case he clearly sets himself at odds with the very body which gave him the authority to begin with. If he does that, I think politically he is inviting defunding.

The GOP has not framed the debate. The "liberal press" has.

I thought I read somewhere that the man in the "Edger suit" lost two planes.

That Obama wouldn't know a RPG from a bong speaks to his abhorrence for both and McCain's obvious working knowledge of both. That explains a lot.

Waiving of the "surrender flag" to Al Qaeda happened at Tora Bora, not Iraq.

The bird that shit on Bush was "wide right" to the viewer.

Ack Ack would better describe the fuss, as it was used to describe the type of gun used to create flak/flack and it's the noise I scream every time I see Bush.