Posted on 10/20/2008 11:28:42 AM PDT by vertolet
UNITED NATIONS, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's permanent mission to the UN has received a letter from U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain asking for financial support of his election campaign, the mission said in a statement on Monday.
"We have received a letter from Senator John McCain with a request for a financial donation to his presidential election campaign. In this respect we have to reiterate that neither Russia's permanent mission to the UN nor the Russian government or its officials finance political activities in foreign countries," the statement said.
According to Ruslan Bakhtin, press secretary of the Russian mission, the letter dated September 29 and signed by McCain, was addressed to Vitaly Churkin, Russia's envoy to the UN, and arrived on October 16.
The ambassador's title was not included in the letter, and was not clear why the letter had taken over two weeks to arrive.
Enclosed was a request for a donation of up to $5,000 to McCain's election campaign to be returned with a check or permission to withdraw the money from the donor's credit card until October 24.
Individual donations to candidates' election campaigns are capped by law at $2,300, and it is illegal to accept donations from foreign nationals.
McCain accepted the $84 million in public financing available to his election campaign, and consequently cannot accept private donations. However, the Republican National Committee is collecting donations that can be used to support his candidacy in limited ways.
Legal barriers aside, the request and the official response from the Russian mission appear even more confusing in the light of McCain's overall negative attitude toward Russia.
Last year he said the G8 should exclude Russia, citing "diminishing political freedoms, a leadership dominated by a clique of former intelligence officers, [and] efforts to bully democratic neighbors."
On August 12, during the brief conflict between Russia and Georgia in its breakaway region of South Ossetia, McCain said he had told Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili: "I know I speak for every American when I say to him, 'Today, we are all Georgians.'"
The Gallup Poll daily tracking survey on Sunday showed Democrat Barack Obama leading McCain nationally by 10 percentage points, 52-42.
The radical left is starting up its dirty tricks.
Something is rotten in Denmark.
I would not put it past an Obamanaut or a Daily K00k forging McCain’s stationery and sending it to the Russians as a prank, or to discredit Sen. McCain’s campaign.
Something doesn’t smell right with this.
Its amazing, all these stories accusing McCain of being guilty of the same things the evidence indicates Obama’s campaign is doing.
IMO, the “washed up old terrorists”, thinking Obama is certain of victory, are letting fly pent up schemes they’ve been gloating over for 30 years.
Mccain wouldn’t ask Russia for a donation. McCain is NOT OBAMA.
This is blatant B.S. Like McCain would be that stupid.
If a prank, I hope this comes back to bite the Dems in thier big fat arses. The Obama campaign has received illegal donations in foreign currencies that amount to $60 miilion...McCain needs to ride those dirtbags on this...talk about a National Security breach! Are these donations from the Middle East maybe?...
AM I LIVING IN BIZARRO WORLD?....GET me out...I want out!
The ambassador’s title was not included in the letter, and was not clear why the letter had taken over two weeks to arrive.
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Maybe it was held up at the local Kinko’s?
Oh good grief...it sounds like a standard donation letter got sent to the UN Building in NY. Why is this even news?
Oh this is rich. McCain doesn’t take donations from Americans at this point and we are to believe he asked for some from Russia after he chewed them a new one over Georgia.
Joe Biden needs to stop this silly letter writing! /s ???
This is complete and utter BS. McCain is not stupid. Soliciting money from a foreign government would be the dumbest thing. Although I wouldn’t put it past Obama to be secretly getting funding through some muslim sources....
“The radical left is starting up its dirty tricks.”
Exactly!
The article doesn’t say that Gallup showed McCain behind by LESS THAN 3 points among LIKELY voters, so how can we believe the rest of the article.
The article is nothing but SPIN, aka lie.
This article should motivate us to contribute some more to McCain/Palin’s campaign, so they can counter the spin/lies with tv ads.
Clearly an Obamanation or Commie Russia dirty trick to blunt the blogosphere headlines (right not left) about the tens of millions of dollars going into Obama’s campaign.
See, even McCain sends out to illegal foreign donors, they’ll cry. This is a hoax by the democraps and their supporters to try to burst any investigation into Obama’s finances.
Unlike commie Obama, McCain has a long anti commie history and would not send such a missive to the Commie Russian Embassy under any circumstances. If such a letter really did go out, I could only have to believe there’s an Obama plant in the campaign that did it, and he/she should be immediately fired.
Desperation.....
The Russians wrote back that they’re sorry but they already maxed out their budget contributing to Obama.
Until the “letter” is produced....have to assume....not an issue. If the “letter” is produced, we can tear into it like 0bama’s COLB.
McCain doesn’t need Russia’s money. He already has Mexico’s.
Hmmmm....after mulling this over...do you think this could be part of the voter registration fraud by ACORN? A voter who registers as a Republican would probably recieve one of these form donation letters, maybe someone fraudulently signed up this guy. I got a donation letter and a picture of McCain/Palin and I have not donated a dime yet, so they have to be depending strictly on voter registration for these funding drives.
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