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    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi...mbassador.html

    McCain camp hits up Russian envoy

    On a day on which McCain campaign manager Rick Davis hinted that Obama was taking foreign money, the Russian Mission to the United Nations has released a standard-issue fundraising letter gone a bit astray: It was addressed to the Russian envoy to the U.N., Vitaly Churkin, at the mission's address, but without his le.

    As the Russian newswire RIA-Novosti tells it:

    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 le 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.


    Bakhtin confirmed the story to Politico, and wouldn't comment on the added oddity of the error coming from the anti-Russian McCain. "We just find it amusing," he said.

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    This "public funding" must have some weaksauce parameters?

    Why would the idiot McCain camp risk all this for only $5,000?

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    oh wow. well, if this true, this definitely makes me consider 3rd party which is pretty much pissing my vote away. where in the is the damn reset button for this race?

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    I think Palin put the letter in a glass bottle and let it drift from her home in Alaska to Russia.

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    Live by what you Speak. DarkReign's Avatar
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    I think Palin put the letter in a glass bottle and let it drift from her home in Alaska to Russia.
    Ok, Ill admit...I laughed.

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    I think Palin put the letter in a glass bottle and let it drift from her home in Alaska to Russia.


    Oh thats the funniest thing you've ever posted.

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    Hunker down you hairy Dawgs! romad_20's Avatar
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    Is this true?

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    Yes.

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    Or so it seems anyway

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    I think Palin put the letter in a glass bottle and let it drift from her home in Alaska to Russia.
    That's pretty funny

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    Hunker down you hairy Dawgs! romad_20's Avatar
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    Or so it seems anyway
    Just wondering. It seems like the liberal media elite would be having a field day with this

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