Posted on 02/07/2010 10:36:24 AM PST by SumProVita
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.
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This also shows Obam's complete disdain for the Constitution.
If true, it is simply amazing. Obama, a law student and not a physicist collaborates with Tribe, a legal scholar and lawyer, not a physicist, to challenge Einstein? What total and complete hubristic arrogance. No wonder the guy thinks he is God. When he was a student, he had people like Tribe encouraging him to think that way. There are only a handful of people in the world as smart as Einstein was, and none of them would claim to be. Yet Obama, urged on by Tribe, believes he is smarter than Einstein, and bases the claim on a faulty premise. Good grief.
It gets worse. Look what Wiki reports: “Some liberal politicians have extrapolated the theory of relativity to metaphorically justify their own political agendas. For example, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama helped publish an article by liberal law professor Laurence Tribe to apply the relativistic concept of “curvature of space” to promote a broad legal right to abortion.”
Excellent article, and the comments at PM are even better.
Well, we all know that mathematics is foundational to physics...and Obama *seems not to have a clue about how foolish, counter-productive and destructive his policies are, particularly with regard to the economy (think mathematics again).
*Use of the word SEEMS leaves room for some doubt as to precisely WHAT his real goals are.
Personally, I am also very aware of his lack of knowledge regarding history. We have heard him toss out pure ERROR on a number of occasions. Of course, there are a few other areas where his knowledge base is very lacking, but we all have a pretty good idea of those already.
Badcrack Obamao thinks the Constitution was written by a bunch of white racists who lacked the wisdom of Marx. He sees himself as the apotheosis of American enlightenment, as demonstrated by all of his pictures and portraits hanging on the walls of the White House. Whereas he considers the Constitution a flawed document, encumbered by the limitations of its times and bigotries of its writers, he sees his vision of social and economic equality as the enlightened course for modern America. In other words, Obamao is completely foolish.
Another question: Why didn’t our brilliant mainstream media report this BEFORE the election? We were deliberately deceived.
Indeed! He is a blatant relativist when it comes to religion as well.
...because our brilliant mainstream media is anything BUT brilliant these days. Grrrrrr.....
“Pure Error” is pretty generous; I doubt Obama is that dumb so I submit his “errors” are in fact LIES. I hate being lied to, especially by someone posing as the Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces. Truly bizzaro-world. God help us.
He is a semi-educated and very indoctrinated RELATIVIST. He is either too ignorant to understand this...or he has a firm and hidden agenda. Time will tell....
I tend to lean in the same direction because of the plethora of evidence from his background mentors and the activities he engaged in earlier. However, I honestly cannot say this for sure. We will see.
We DO know that he’s a relativist and if he completely accepts the writings of Alinsky, he would have no compunction about lying to achieve his goals.
Of course but.. The issue is not the issue. Don't debate the science -- or lack thereof.
Obama and other Marxists distort America's legal and social institutions by purposeful misstatements of new insights into the operation of the physical world. It's what they do. It's socialist "truth."
Obama is the biological and ideological issue of 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus/street revolutionary rabble. It is hopeless to try to change his feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings.
Laugh at them.
Now playing: Obamonty Jivethon's Lying Circus' America, According to Marx Brothers
These guys, at least the One, must think they are gods. This is on par with Q, Piccard's nemesis, who could change the laws of physics. To equate Constitutional law with laws of physics is beyond absurd. The next thing they will claim is that global warming is cause by man and the Sun (or physics) has nothing to do with it.
The Constitution is a set of rules, written by men, for men to live by. If they are arguing that rules men create need to be changed because they, the Constitution writers, misunderstood the physical world, there is no indication, that, Tribe and DumBO, have a better understanding. Before they can pronounce that the laws of physics dictate the Constitution be changed, they need to prove the relationship between physics and the Constitution.
The only thing more fallacious than the paper is that ZerO contributed to it.
Obama’s brain.
Nature’s most complete vacuum.
Not even quantum particles can appear and disappear there.
“The Constitution is a set of rules, written by men, for men to live by.”
I think Obama also fails to consider that the Founders continuously called on the Creator to guide them in that writing. ;-)
“The only thing more fallacious than the paper is that ZerO contributed to it.”
I would LOVE to know exactly what he contributed to it. I’d also love to get my hands on whatever he wrote as a student at Columbia.
“These guys, at least the One, must think they are gods.”
What I see them doing is generalizing, in a very condescending manner, about those who disagree with them in an attempt to discredit their education and/or intelligence. Such generalization is an error of logic that, ironically, demonstrates their own lack thereof.
Very interesting....I can see why Obama wants that hidden...
There is the caliber of what Haaarvard teaches is malcontents. Even the professors are malcontents. No wonder Harvard allows the grades and courses taken to be hidden away. The course work taken was probably remedial courses in English, Math, Science. His law degree probably is is preschool educational law. Plus he took coursework in rhetorical devices. Lets see the transcripts from Harvard, Columbia (or is really many different colleges and universities throughout Europe, and Asia) and Occidential.
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Hmm, I'm absurdly busy right now. But file this under: there's a lot to talk about here. This afternoon's legal history email brings news of Frank J. Tipler's latest article on ssrn, entitled "The Obama-Tribe 'Curvature of Constitutional Space' Paper is Crackpot Physics." Professor Tipler's abstract reads:
The Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe published a paper entitled "The Curvature of Constitutional Space," wherein he argued that the strict constructionist interpretations of the U.S. Constitution were obsolete, being based on a Newtonian world-view, and need to be replaced by a more modern relativistic and quantum mechanical world-view. I shall show on the contrary that in using general relativity and quantum mechanics, we have never left the Newtonian world-view. It was shown in 1923 by the greatest geometer of the twentieth century, Elie Cartan, that in Newtonian theory, gravity is curvature just as it is in general relativity. The greatest twentieth century theoretical physicist in Poland, Andrzej Trautman, showed in 1966 that the equations of general relativity are mathematically equivalent to Newtonian gravitational field equations interacting with the luminiferous ether. Physics Nobel Prize winner Lev Landau showed in the 1930's that the Schrodinger equation, the basic equation of quantum mechanics, is a special case of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, proven in 1837 to be the most powerful formulation of Newtonian mechanics. Erwin Schrodinger himself proved that his equation had nothing to do with probabilities or fundamental uncertainties. Since it was demonstrated mathematically decades ago that twentieth century physics is Newtonian mechanics, then by Laurence Tribe's own argument, it follows that all objections to strict constructionism are without merit. Tribe's physics is not post-Newtonian but pre-Newtonian, the physics of Aristotle, in which the arbitrary will of the powerful is the dominant influence in reality. Tribe's politics is, like his physics, profoundly reactionary, replacing unalterable law with the ever changing personal preferences of judges. As I shall demonstrate, the recent Boumedienne vs. Bush decision is a particularly egregious example of such replacement. Furthermore, Tribe's main books on Constitutional law are adversely influenced by his bad physics.
Like me you may be surprised to see that Senator Obama's name appears nowhere in the abstract. So what does Obama have to do with this? Tipler's first sentence says that Tribe wrote the "Curvature of Constitutional Space" with the "assistance of then editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review B. Obama." The article appeared in volume 103 in November 1989--and Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review for volume 104. Obama was, however, listed in the acknowledgments as one of five research assistants. I've already cautioned against drawing influences about Obama from what appeared in the Harvard Law Review while he was running it here and about his "lost" "article" here. Now we're drawing inferences from a faculty member he worked for (and sure, maybe he wrote some footnotes for this article--might even have written a little of the text above the line; who knows?). But, hey, why not throw in Obama's name.
Come to think of it, I may add him to all my papers. Senator Obama taught Ruffin's opinion in State v. Mann in his race and law course at the University of Chicago Law School. How's "Obama and Thomas Ruffin: Of Moral Philosophy and Monuments" sound?
One other quick observation: it's been a long time since I read Tribe's article, but wasn't he was using physics as a metaphor for what happens in constitutional law? Anyway, Tipler's paper is available for download for free here.
This has, however, given me the idea to look in westlaw to see what other articles Obama worked on as an RA. And it turns out he was thanked by David Rosenberg for assistance on "Of End Games and Openings in Mass Tort Cases: Lessons from a Special Master," which appeared in the Boston University Law Review in May 1989 (69 B.U. L. Rev. 695). Alfreda Diamond Sellers was the first person to cite him in a law review article (for Dreams from My Father), in the Mississippi Law Journal in 1999.
And now back to work on University, Court, and Slave. Or, maybe I'll call it Obama, University, Court, and Slave....
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