McCain Camp's Rove Acolyte Decries Obama's Tactics As Rovian

The McCain campaign is accusing Barack Obama of playing the Race Card today, for the first time ever in presidential politics. The evidence: Obama joked to a crowd in Missouri that he "doesn't look like the other Presidents on the currency," which is Racial Code for "download that new Ludacris joint, y'all!" McCain campaign official Rick Davis mewled in response, "Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck ... It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

Of course, the McCain campaign quote that I find even more interesting came from Steve Schmidt, which Fox News' James Rosen reported on today:

ROSEN: McCain's senior campaign adviser Steve Schmidt told our Carl Cameron, that quote: "A lie, unrebutted, can become the truth" and that his candidate learned in 2000, when McCain himself was the victim of racial attacks about his daughter, quote: "You must respond instantaneously, and with all you got."

Of course, it's no wonder that Schmidt should have an intimate awareness of those racial attacks, since they were launched by Fox News' own Karl Rove, the man who would become Schmidt's boss on the Bush re-elect team in 2004, and who serves the McCain campaign as an adviser in 2008. Maybe Obama was playing his "A Lie Unrebutted Can Become The Truth" Card.