It's taken a little time for the Karl Rove "elitist" attack on Obama to sink in. But one of Josh Marshall's readers see something darker:

The key to Rove's exposition about Obama at the country club isn't the silliness of placing an African-American at a country club because of the fact that so many country clubs largely or completely or just historically exclude African-Americans. That's the way its been picked up by most bloggers and the media, and its obvious, but its not the importance of the comment, and I don't believe Rove's juxtaposition of the African-American Obama at a country club was just a clumsy attempt to paint Obama as a type of elitist contrary to his background.

The key to the statement is that in the image he is with "a beautiful date." Not Michelle Obama or, in the abstract, his wife, i.e. a wife like Michelle Obama. When you think of a "beautiful date" specifically at a country club, do you picture an African-American woman? Would Rove's target audience? Or do you picture him there, a black man, smoking a cigarette indoors at a country club, with a white woman on his arm?

Yes, it sure does look like Karl Rove is telling White America that they will have to lock up their daughters if Obama is president. John McCain will not touch any of this racial stuff, but there is a large flock of GOP hitmen like Rove who will.