Confirmation: The man observed

Yeah, I know. This is the third post (probably two more than you wanted to read) devoted to an email exchange published in Liberal Rapture. The previous installments can be found here and here.

The exchange was between a well-known writer who supports Obama and a black female Democratic activist who got to know the real Barack Obama, and who now has some very critical things to say about Our Dear Leader. Since LR hid the names of both correspondents, some of my readers suspected forgery.

We now know that the exchange is real. Cannonfire readers, especially our resident linguistic analyst G, identified the pro-O writer as James Kunstler. (See comments here.) Kunstler, best-known for his books The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere, keeps a web page here and a blog somewhere else. He has admitted to G that the emails are no forgery. (Thanks, G!)

Is the matter important? That all depends on how much value you place on the delicious first-hand observations offered by Kunstler's anti-O correspondent, whom we will re-christen "Fredricka." (My deepest apologies for first using the code-name "Fred.") To recap (and remember, this is all vis-a-vis Obi):

I have found him to be a rather deceitful person who, certainly, is smart enough but whose vaunted intelligence is vastly overrated - his judgment even more so.

Moreover, I haven't found his writing (which has only been about himself) or his post-graduate career to be anything that would lend me to think more highly of his intelligence.

He skims the surface of issues and problems. In fact, his remarks, when not prepared come across as vapid. He repeats, like rote, tired democratic tropes. (And frankly many Republican ones. He truly does admire Reagan and not just because Reagan won elections).

He seems to have spent little to no time in deep introspection about any particular area of policy. He spent very little time at his actual job in the Senate or doing any substantive work - which was similar to his time in the IL State Senate.

He certainly...seems to at bottom be relatively incurious about geopolitics. And, he would get a glazed look in his eyes and look about for someone else to move on to when I raised questions about how he would address the looming US financial crisis I could see on the horizon.

I can also say how shocked I became at the really dishonest tactics he used, from race-baiting to caucus fraud to paying cyber stalkers to terrorize pro-Clinton writers and website owners.

For goodness sake, the man broke virtually every important promise he made during the primary campaign as soon as it was over, and he's busy continuing this trend now that he's president.

And, he was certainly fairly animated when talking about his "life" and "his story which could only have happened in the U.S." (tell that to all my relatives and friends in the UK and Germany who are biracial with one African parent) and how he went into politics "for his girls future" and when asking us to reach deep in our pockets to help him succeed. It was only when he was pressed to delve deeply into significant policy issues that he became uninterested, bored and fidgety.