Posted on 10/21/2008 6:43:08 AM PDT by kronos77
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS - John McCain’s U.S. presidential election campaign has solicited a financial contribution from an unlikely source — Russia’s U.N. envoy — but a McCain spokesman said on Monday it was a mistake.
In the letter, McCain urged Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin to contribute anywhere from $35 to $5,000 to help ensure McCain’s victory over Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama, currently ahead in voter preference polls.
“If I have the honor of continuing to serve you, I make you this promise: We will always put America — her strength, her ideals, her future — before every other consideration,” McCain assured Churkin.
Moscow’s mission to the United Nations issued a terse statement on the Republican presidential candidate’s letter, saying that the Russian government and its officials “do not finance political activity in foreign countries.”
A spokesman for McCain, a long-time critic of Russia, had a simple explanation for the fundraising letter’s arrival at the Russian mission in New York: “It was an error in the mailing list.”
The letter was addressed to Churkin and sported a McCain signature near the bottom.
Earlier this month, both McCain and Obama harshly criticized Russia for invading Georgia two months ago, but neither was willing to say yes when asked if Russia under Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was the “evil empire”.
It is illegal for U.S. presidential candidates to accept funds from foreign sources. The McCain campaign accused Obama earlier this month of not doing enough to screen for illegal contributors and asked U.S. election officials to investigate.
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This will get big news play, but the MSM continues to avoid looking into Obama’s campaign financing question marks.
What a non-story.
Not a cent from anywhere else...
Yeah, right...
So he got a pre-printed, bulk-mailed McCain request for donations? Oh, please.
LOL, I love it.
I got a fund raiser letter and call for Obama a few weeks back—I just assume it was a serious mistake. What a joke to entertain that Mc Cain campaign would in earnest send a letter to the Russian envoy after his reaction to them over Georgia.
this is flaky
sounds like a disinformation setup by someone out to get McCain...
McCain ought to make a joke out of it
“My friends, I do not need Russian votes ... I don’t think I’m the candidate they’d choose anyway”
You mean, not a RED cent....
How about a list of foreign supporters of BHO: Hugo "El Loco" Chavez, Al Jazeera, "Daffy" Kadaffy, Hamas, a large portion of the "European Union", Ahmahandjob in Iran, and many more...
None of whom have been repudiated by BHO...however, I am sure their financial support was gratefully accepted, and well-disguised.
“Unlikely source” is right. These guys are supposed to be, and probably are, donating to Obama.
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