VP Debate Reflections

I saw a wind-up doll parrotting trained answers at a rapid fire pace. I saw a poised man masterfully articulating facts in an organized and persuasive fashion. I saw an amateur flyweight against a professional heavyweight. I saw a woman reading a script against a man who was the script.

The pundits said there were no "gaffe's." How gentle they were being with Mrs. Palin. She refused to answer the moderator's question on several occasions, choosing to shift the subject to one of her choosing. She contradicted the commanding General on using the Surge in Afghanistan. She said the constitution allowed for flexibility in expanding the powers of the VP, even beyond Lord Cheney's. When asked about her Achilles heel, she simply bragged about her padded reseme. She contradicted her own position on civil rights for same sex couples. She didn't really answer about half of the questions, choosing instead to ramble on in rapid-fire fashion.

How would the pundits rate Biden using these tactics against Mrs. Palin?

And this is not to mention what none of the ANALysts have the cojones to say: How phony she was from the get-go with her "can I call ya Joe...." and the worst gambit of all -- waving her poor down-syndrome baby around as a prop!

What about the incessant flouncing and winking? Was she flirting with lonely male voters or signaling that all you voters out there know what she knows? Then there is the slogan for which her campaign is so proud....Drill, baby, drill. Has anyone told them that genesis of this epithet is the Watt's Riots in LA in 1962?

When Gwn Ifill asked Palin what she'd do about the mortgage crisis, she responded: "Let's commit ourselves--just everyday American people, Joe Six-Pack, hockey moms across the nation -- I think we need to band together and say, 'Never again!'" She didn't illucidate just how hockey moms and beer abusers could get together to prevent a financial crisis -- or simply answer the question by any measure. she got a pass. "I've only been at this for five-weeks...." precisely, the problem Sarah, thanks.

Other than that, she mistated McCain's positions on numerous topics from civil rights for same sex couples to giving bankruptcy judges the power to rewrite mortgages.

She was like a fairly well-trained seal at Sea World. She continually winked into the camera. She appealed to "Joe Six-Pack." Deep inside, I cringe at the prospect of Sarah Palin being the Vice President of the United States. That movie would make the Exorcist or Alien seem like a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Has America simply degenerated into "Six-Pack Nation?"

The good news was that I saw a masterful performance by Joe Biden. With a scintillating command of all issues, Joe delivered a powerful testament for being the Vice President, and if need be -- the President of the United States.

And I think that was the underlying message. The other one was that the Neocon's are cooking up in their laborotories -- Palin in 2012. You betcha (wink!)

The Stars of Sarah and the Big Debate

Sarah Palin
February 11, 1964
7:06 am (reported)
Sandpoint Idaho

Chart Notes:

Double Aquarius (almost triple) with a 29 degree Capricorn Moon conjunct Mercury at 1 degree aquarius. This singular aspect signifies gifts of intuition and imagination, empathic abilities and the capacity for almost simultaneous transmission of thoughts and feelings with passion.

If the reported birth time is correct, this puts her Aquarius stellium (22 degree Aquarius Sun, 23 degree Mars and 25 degree Saturn) -- all in a most powerful angular position to her ascendant. Venus at Zero Aries -- the Spring Equinox degree, amplified by Jupiter in the middle of Aries. Make no mistake about it, this is a highly talented, quite masterful person. Blessed with athletic ability, good looks, charm, poise, and a nimble mind, Sarah charges forth in a bright aura of invincibility. She may be ignorant and full of BS, but she is very bright and gifted with a powerful treasure of resources at her command. In the political arena, this is the chart of someone who is mostly frosting with very little cake. Though a better analogy might be a hostess twinkee -- with the surprise cream filling.

BullShit as an Art:

Palin's stellium in Aquarius as well as her Venus/Jupiter placement in Aries signify strong public relations skills and the ability to interface magnificently with the public. Big bubbly prosperity. She can be very warm and magnetic, quick and nimble. She is so adept with these skills that she has become a self-anointed know-it-all, often displacing a lack of substance with generalities or non-answers. Her foreign policy experience due to her physical proximity to Russia, or listing the foreign destinations of fuel-stop-overs as countries she has visited on her reseme -- a few of many cases in point. Palin shares many of the Reaganesque "teflon" qualities -- Reagan being a fellow Aquariuan. But as the saying goes...she is "no Ronald Reagan." Aquarius is co-ruled by Saturn (old/stubborn) and Uranus (new/unconventional), and Palin exhibits both tendencies in extreme ways. One example is her belief in Creationism, complete with a 6000 year-old Earth with coexisting Dinosaurs and Humans, or her ability to both deny, dismiss - yet condone - this argument in public simultaneously. The more I look at her chart, the more my intuitive juices simply signal "con-artist." She has developed her skills at BS to a finely tuned Art. Her new book could be aptly titled The Audacity of Bullshit.

The Big Debate

The much anticipated VP debate is scheduled to start at 9:00 pm (est) on October 2 when the Moon is right on her midheaven at 22º Scorpio and squaring her 22 degree Aquarius Sun. She will be highly charged and overly primed. She will be out to prove her self and I suspect she will go way over the top.
These are very hard and challenging aspects. I would be surprised if Ms. Congeniality isn't highly strung, very uptight, perhaps boiling over with emotion. Mr. Biden would be well advised to play aikido with Mrs. Palin. The pit bull with the lipstick will be frothing at the mouth. Joe is so lucky they are positioned behind podiums. Their synergy should make this debate Big Entertainment. During the debate, the Scorpio Moon will square her Mars, so she will likely be in attack mode. Barack will be the big target for the attacks of Sarah Barracuda. The Moon will also be applying to a square with her natal Saturn, so I think you will see someone who becomes very frustrated. I am going to be surprised if she doesn't blow it well beyond what happened with Katie Couric.

Stay tuned.