7-24-08

Cliff Note: I am the gatekeeper and music maestro of the DTHH, if you’re interested in submitting music or musical ideas to the DTHH, you can email me here or drop off your CD’s at WSKY in Gainesville. Today’s DTHH bumper music is an eclectic mix of modernized jazz: Jaco Pastorius, Medski, Martin and Wood, Al DiMeola and such.

Robert Byers on the Dorwin Award: “Everything canceled out. Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn’t say one @$#%^ thing, and said it so that you never noticed. There are the assurances you had from your precious Empire….I hereby nominate Barack Obama for the First Annual Lord Dorwin Award. A better description of his campaign will never be penned. In two years of campaigning, he hasn’t said one serious, meaningful thing, and said it so the electorate never noticed.”

Ed Morrissey: “I guess this is a question of priorities. Barack Obama apparently ran short on time in his visit to Germany today… So what did Obama cut today? Der Spiegel’s blog reports on Obama’s priorities:++ Visit to US Military Bases Cancelled ++SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that Obama has cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl US military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday. “Barack Obama will not be coming to us,” a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. “I don’t know why.” Shortly before the same spokeswoman had announced a planned visit by Obama.”

Ed Morrissey: “Wes Clark on the surge: It was a Saudi payoff that worked…This isn’t exactly a lost history. Actually, 4,000 extra Marines went to Anbar. The extra Marine battalions got a lot of attention in the beginning of the surge, especially since they had the toughest job in clearing Anbar, while the Army focused more on Baghdad. In fact, some debated whether the two extra Marine battalions would be enough for the mission — which the Corps answered almost immediately by beginning their string of successes in the region.”

Jim Geraghty: “Post Not Buying The Line That Today’s Berlin Rally Isn’t Political…The Obama camp has insisted that today’s speech in Berlin won’t be a political speech. The Washington Post, today, in a story about U.S. embassy workers being instructed to not attend…”

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