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In Which I Eat My Hat
IN WHICH I EAT MY HAT....Barack Obama will be announcing his foreign policy team on Monday. David Sanger reports on their mission:
All three of his choices — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as the rival turned secretary of state; Gen. James L. Jones, the former NATO commander, as national security adviser, and Robert M. Gates, the current and future defense secretary — have embraced a sweeping shift of priorities and resources in the national security arena.
The shift would create a greatly expanded corps of diplomats and aid workers that, in the vision of the incoming Obama administration, would be engaged in projects around the world aimed at preventing conflicts and rebuilding failed states.
....Whether they can make the change — one that Mr. Obama started talking about in the summer of 2007, when his candidacy was a long shot at best — "will be the great foreign policy experiment of the Obama presidency," one of his senior advisers said recently.
The adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the three have all embraced "a rebalancing of America's national security portfolio" after a huge investment in new combat capabilities during the Bush years.
That's good to hear. If they're successful, it would be a triumph of common sense in an era that's seen precious little of it in the national security arena.
On another note, you may recall that I promised to eat my hat if Hillary Clinton agreed to be Obama's Secretary of State, and let no one say I'm not a man of my word. Marian made me a chocolate cake in the shape of a baseball cap, I decorated it with M&Ms, and then this afternoon I chowed down on it. Promise made, promise kept.
Bravo, Kevin. I like a man of his word. (Your wife is a true helpmeet.)
If you're not going to eat a real hat (one you can wear) at the very least you could have made it yourself.
That looks like a delicious hat cake, and it's certainly pretty, but, uh, why are you wearing a yarmulke in that last photo?
And I know you live behind the Orange Curtain, but that ain't Dodger Blue nor is it Angel Red.
I agreed with Kevin's prediction, so if Marian wants to make another delicious-looking hat I'd gladly eat one too.
I'm just saying...
Huh. I guess that's one way to have your cake and eat your hat too.
Hmmmm, this eating a chocolate hat cake vow is now seeming a bit like Briar Rabbit's "don't throw me into the briar patch" plea -- you derived too much pleasure out of being wrong.
Sort of a "Cake or Death" thing, perhaps?
Is that a sweet chocolate hat or bitter chocolate hat?
Hat cake is not a hat nor is shoe cake a shoe, nor is yellowcake a cake.
I think you might be able to swing a cake a week if you play your cards right.
I suggest making a wild guess about OPEC and the price of oil. If you're wrong you can eat your words (assuming their made out of a chocolate).
If Bush pardons Libby you can eat chocolate nails.
I think the real question we are missing here is: Why don't you own even a single hat?
Look at that picture, you are in dancer of cancer of the bald-spot, I mean the head.
You know 'Vencent', you might be taken a bit more seriously if you paid attention to spelling and grammar. After all, even Christians have to read over their own rants to see if they make some sort of sense...
I think since this is the second time this has happened to a pundit(the first was Tucker Carlson), I think we can establish the Hillary rule: any prediction made about Clinton followed by "I'll eat a hat or a shoe" is sure to result in said pundit getting fat off hat or shoe-shaped cake.
Now all we need to do is get Matt Yglesias to say, "If Hillary Clinton helps negotiate a final peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, I'll eat my hat".
Yep, Hillary DID take the job and now it off the rescue those oil contracts in Iraq.
I think it's too late, Iran is calling all the shots now. That is not to say there won't been any contracts in Iraq, as they know who buys their oil, but what deals Iraq does make with the US won't be the kind of stuff the US had in the past with the Saudi's. That kind of ownship is over. Anymore war would make things much, much worse.
Does this prove that you can't eat your hat and wear it too?
The Christians first you what. Truer words were never spoken, I guess. Well said, Vencent. By the way, this is what us Heathens call sarcasm.
The stress on post-conflict reconstruction in Susan E Rice's expertise, and in the general Obama approach to foreign and security policy, is very timely, and not only because of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Some interesting sites on this include:
http://www.csis.org/isp/pcr/
http://www.iiss.org/conferences/global-strategic-review/global-strategic...
and across the pond - http://www.stabilisationunit.gov.uk/
At this time when Keynes is flavor of the month in economic policy, it's interesting to think how far our approach to post-conflict reconstruction has come since, at and after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, he had to argue against a veangeful "peace" (on this, see J M Keynes, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", 1919, and D Markwell, "John Maynard Keynes and International Relations", 2006).
What a sacrifice, Br'er Drum.
"Don't make me eat chocolate cake! No, not that... not the chocolate cake, with icing! Egads! Anything but that!"
Did those of you complaining about the fact that it was a cake really think he'd try to consume a fabric or petrol-based product head covering?
Because, if so: You are morons.
That is all.
Kevin,
Werner Herzog is a better
man than you. See "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" by Les
Blank.
Vincent, Tell us more about your goat. How often does he converse with you about gay marriage and other thorny issues of the day? Was he born a Christian goat or did he convert?
It's really just a travesty of the whole idea of eating one's hat.
I'd much rather see you WEAR that particular hat.
Well this is great. A new foreign policy team who all thought invading Iraq was a great idea. And a new economics team who all thought regulating Wall Street was a terrible idea. And though I'm only one year older than Kevin, it's been years since I could eat anything as rich as that cake.
That "hat" was too small for your bald spot anyway. Send Marion back to the kitchen. Maybe she could cook up a capellini hair weave.
I also agree that the cake makes a mockery of the penitence implied in eating one's hat. Unless of course the cake was vegan. Vegan pastries are so nasty.
what you have just done is to devalue any future prediction-related promises you may make.
when you say "i predict that x will not happen, and if it does i'll eat my hat," then you are offering us an assurance that you are strongly committed to the truth of your prediction.
the strength of your commitment is measured by your willingness to undergo something unpleasant if you are wrong.
now that we see how you interpret your commitments, we will know how to interpret your future pledges.
which may be a good thing--i mean, maybe you never wanted us to treat your predictions as serious in any case.
in which case, "i predict that x will not happen, and if it does i'll eat a chocolate cake" might be the more useful thing to say.
it is a pretty good way to tell us that you have nothing riding on x's happening either way.
You will have to eat another one but place it upon your head first.
A felt hat would have provided more fiber so that Kevin could be a regular guy.
Eating a hat is preferable to eating Obama's shit.
Hey, your supposed to put the grecian formula on ALL of your hair. =P
Kevin's actually gone above and beyond his original promise, which was to eat a hat-shaped cake if we the readers provided the cake.
Eating a cake is not eating a hat.
If you don't want to eat an actual hat, then you should wear a cake on your head.
President-elect Obama's cabinet selections should be making his liberal supporters depressed. A common behavior of severely depressed people is to rub chocolate snack cake in their hair.
I think technically you would have had to wear it on your head at least once for it to qualify as "your hat". :)
The hat was a lie.
Actually, that's just sunlight reflecting on the back of my head. So far, anyway, my head of hair has remained complete.
I really bothered you that someone thought you were bald, didn't it, hahaha?
It, IT!
It really bothers me that I didn't spell-check that comment!
Which is why I always wear a jerky cap.
anybody else get slammed to some game site when they clicked on this link?
Has Hillary said anything about WHY she took this job instead of staying in the Senate?
You could have made a Carmen Miranda fruit hat, and ate that. It'd have been healthier, too.
I'm calling for an investigation! Unless Marian was able to transfer the hat from one plate to another, which is highly doubtful given the fragility of the bill, there were TWO cakes. Check out the top picture and compare with the plate in the bottom picture: Different plates! Something weird is going on in Orange Country. Now, about Obama's citizenship, I have a theory...
The hat was a lie.
Win.
That was gutless, Kevin. Really.
all of the bald spot jokes really cracked me up.
sunlight on the back of your head, right.
nice comb_over.
Your followers will need their hat if they go to college, because it may be cold when they volunteer. Checkout the details of the Obama programs at http://citizencorps.blogspot.com
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