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JAMES TARANTO WRITES: Axelrod, speaking of the president, tells the Washington Post: ?This is som?

By Glenn Reynolds

JAMES TARANTO WRITES:

Axelrod, speaking of the president, tells 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.” That’s got to be a joke, but the message is clear: President Obama and his men are a lot smarter than the average voter.

Obama’s smarts are still to be determined, but the Tribe article, The Curvature of Constitutional Space, is real. In fact, I wrote an essay in response in the Columbia Law Review. Only I invoked Chaos Theory, in a form of law-geek one-upsmanship.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).