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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Writings from Obama's Past

 RayH has pointed out I need to clarify here, not everyone has as much time I do to sit at the computer and read all this "Stuff."
 UPDATE Below original post. 
I saw several postings at different blogs on this yesterday. James Lewis at American Thinker blog has this one that seems to sum up the talk from yesterday.
Obama on the legal implications of Einstein's Relativity
Quote from the Washington Post:
"This is someone who in law school worked with [Harvard professor] Larry Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of Einstein's theory of relativity," said senior adviser David M. Axelrod. "He does have an incisive mind; that mind is always put to use in pursuit of tangible things that are going to improve people's lives."
Unquote.
Hmmm... should we be impressed?
What is astonishing --- what's mind-boggling --- but explains a lot --- is that:
1. Lawrence Tribe, always mentioned as the next Supreme Court nominee, would lend his name to such utter sophomoric moonshine, thereby exposing himself to ridicule from the entire Harvard Faculty, and screwing up his chances to ever get to the Court.
2. That Obama himself would fall for it --- as the elected chief honcho of the Harvard Law Review! (Although it may explain why nothing he wrote ever got published).
3. That David Axelrod, supposed PR genius, would cite this arrant nonsense as a point IN FAVOR of his boss.
4. That a WaPo reporter would publish it in a recitation of why the man in the White House is sane after all, even while expecting the Democrats in Congress to commit political suicide for the greater glory of Obama.
There is a lot more along these lines, you will like it, read it all.
UPDATE 1st from Powerline:
Here's one we can file in the ever-expanding "much ado about nothing" category. The New York Sun reports that, as a law student, Barack Obama assisted Harvard's Larry Tribe with an article Tribe wrote for the Harvard Law Review called "The Curvature of Constitutional Space: What Lawyers Can Learn From Modern Physics." The Sun claims that Obama's view of the Constitution is "hinted" in Tribe's piece.
2nd From Frank J. Tipler in Pajamas Media
According to the Washington Post, David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s senior advisor, said that the president worked with “[Harvard professor] Laurence Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of Einstein’s theory of relativity.” I’ve read that paper, “The Curvature of Constitutional Space.” It’s complete nonsense. It shows no understanding of Einstein’s theory of relativity, or of the relationship between relativity theory and Newton’s theory.

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