“Now he accuses Obama of accepting money from foreign entities, but it’s his campaign that gets its hand caught in the Russian cookie jar.” And a reference to this being another example of McCain’s paradoxical reality.

Good thing the original article at least got around to the truth at the very end of the story. You wouldn’t know it otherwise.

So don’t get your knickers all in a twist. There’s not a soul alive that thinks McCain singled out Churkin as a potential source of a campaign contribution, especially since it’s illegal to do so. The rest of the Washington Monthly piece — the part you excerpted in your comment — makes it very clear that it wasn’t deliberate, no one thinks it was deliberate, and no one is trying to stir up trouble by claiming it was deliberate. That’s why it’s ironic, instead of, oh, say, outrageous or unconscionable. Got it?

Now, lighten up a bit, okay? We don’t want you to stroke out before the election.

Now, in fairness, this was almost certainly the result of some kind of innocent mix-up. Churkin received a generic email solicitation, probably by accident. Russian officials don’t believe the McCain campaign was deliberately asking for an illegal donation. Ruslan Bakhtin, press secretary of the Russian mission, told Ben Smith, “We just find it amusing.” As do I.

So you take an obvious dumb mailing glitch and purposely turn it into an attack piece. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there are enough REAL faults within McCain’s campaign to focus on rather than lowering yourself to disingenious accusations. I thought Obama wants to RAISE the level of political campaigning? Did you not get the memo?

Hope and change?