I had to read this one twice because, I know it is illegal for a Presidential Candidate to receive money from a foreign government. The irony is that McCain, just the other month, was shooting off his mouth about Russia and they fired back with their own round of insults after his knee jerk criticisms. The Washington Post has the excuse from their spokesman over the “mix-up” and the letter that the U.N. Russian Ambassador received from the McCain Campaign.

The Russian mission to the United Nations furnished a copy of a Sept. 29 campaign letter it received urging U.N. ambassador Vitaly I. Churkin to contribute up to $5,000 to “stop the Obama Democrats from seizing control of the entire federal government.”

“Please know this — we will not concede any region to the Democrats,” the letter states.

The Russian mission issued a statement saying “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 United Nations, nor the Russian government or its officials finance political activities in foreign countries.”

It is illegal for an American political candidate to accept campaign contributions from a foreign government. “It was just a mistake. We don’t solicit folks who can’t give,” said McCain-Palin spokesman Brian Rogers. Asked whether there were any other ambassadors that they planned to solicit, Rogers laughed and said, “I hope not. Maybe we’ll find out tomorrow.”

Diplomats from several other powerful nations said that they do not believe that they had receive any financial appeals from either Obama or McCain. “He must have been really desperate,” said one European official, when informed of McCain’s Russian appeal.