McCain picks a VP

Dear Lynne,

I am pro-life, and I totally agree with you. I am against abortion, AND I am against the death penalty, AND I am pro gun control.

I can't wait for more of your postings about Palin, and how McCain and Palin will mesh, and do you think they will win?

I'm voting for Obama, but I disagree with him about abortion.

Lynn,

Palin's chart sounds exactly like mine (my moon is in Aquarius as well); when is her birthday? Also, you said she had no planets in water other than Chiron, but how can Neptune square her sun unless it is in Scorpio?

I'm not too impressed with her however; as Gov. of Alaska, I assume she has the power to stop that wretched aerial gunning of Alaska's wolves, but as far as I know, she hasn't.

Don't the actual astrological conditions on election day... the Uranus funkiness, the void-of-course Moon, the huge dependency on suspect ballot machine technology... essentially trump the question of who is running, or what they think of abortion or oil prices or anything, on either side?

http://matthewastrology.blogspot.com/2008/08/winner-of-2008-presidential-election-is.html

Please print the information you used as birth date, time and place for Mrs. Palin. Thank you.
By the way, I really enjoy your blog and I believe you and I think very much alike. I usually agree with what you write opinion-wise.
I am an intermediate astrologer, doing astrology since the 1970's, more as a hobby than anything.

About Sarah Palin:

A creationist, pro-big oil (her husband is a BP exec), and against a woman's right to choose.

The general public might not know her but us tree huggers do: she encourages the slaughter of Alaskan wolves and wants to take polar bears off the endangered species list.

(She has recently been investigated on ethics charges; she had her brother-in-law fired.)

Oh--and the whole global warming thing? Nah, nothin' to it. Just a bunch of science junk.

I have been searching for a reasoned coverage of this choice from major media--and it's nowhere to be found.

Lynn,

I guess you missed where I asked for Ms. Palin's DOB, so i Googled it. Just as I suspected, one day before mine. I'd bet my last dollar her moon is in Capricorn which would, I'm guessing, give her some measure of ambition, a quality which someone who wants a career in politics would need to succeed.

Interestingly, she seems to be my exact opposite in terms of her beliefs, despite our many planetary similarities.

Actually, Christians oversimplify it. I have heard several rabbis explain that the commandment actually translates "thou shalt not murder," which invokes degrees of motivation and interpretation, as does all Jewish law. Likewise adultery was traditionally the province of MARRIED women, not single women or men. But I digress.

Sarah Palin is such a refreshing breath of fresh air, in many ways, the most qualified candidate in the presidential sweepstakes.

Obama's Nuremberg-style acceptance speech with its raving crowds of "Hitler Youth" was really unnerving. That rally bore little resemblance to an informed democracy but had all the trappings of a mindless third-world dictatorship.

This guy is an empty suit who stands for nothing and has accomplished little. It's a shame that white guilt, black over-idealism and a handsome multi-cultural family have superseded any pretensions to substance.

Dawn,

I'd be very interested in hearing why you think Palin is 'the most qualified candidate'.

I find only this:
-elected governor, Alaska, 2006
--two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, City Council from 1992 to 1996
--elected and re-elected mayor of Wasilla for two three-year terms in 1996 and 1999

Even if one supports McCain wholeheartedly, why would it not be irresponsible, to say the least, to vote this person one heartbeat away from the presidency?

Obama may have been born in Kenya, and is thus not a legitimate candidate.
This is not true - Obama was clearly born in Hawaii according to hospital records. McCain, on the other hand, was born in Panama and may not be eligible to run for president in any case.

I'm all for a spirited discussion, but let's not bring falsehoods into the equation.

Gee, the truth speaks loudly enough that I would not have to prevaricate to make a point. Right now, a lawsuit filed by Philip Berg, Esquire, is wending its way through the courts on the very matter of Obama's questionable eligibility. We shall see.

If the major media were not so corporate-controlled and manipulated, so many of us would not be so ignorant about so many things.

As it turns out, it is possible to to forge and replicate data and documents, and some experts in the field contend Obama's alleged birth documents are actually poor collages/forgeries. I also noted in an earlier posting that "McCain's birth locale might also pose a problem."

I have read reports of Obama's African relatives (so neatly excised from the Democratic Convention folderol) relating that they were there for his birth. Of course, you can't believe everything you read.

BTW, BOTH members of The Dream Team are implicated in the Tony Rezko scandal.

Isn't it amazing how much dialog this election provokes? And, Lynn, you really lit a fuse when you mentioned the 'right to life' dichotomy with capital punishment.

Anyway, I want to congratulate you on being one of the very first astrology bloggers to assemble a reasonable profile of Sarah Palin. I've been following several astrology blogs regarding the upcoming election for my own Quantum Spirit blog (I'm not an astrologer myself but enjoy tracking it). Yesterday I posted Pat Paquette's (Pisces Chronicles) initial reaction to the Palin selection and was able to follow up directly with your insights into her personality, which were fascinating.

I want to thank you again, Lynn, for maintaining a blog that is informative from the standpoint of astrology and fun for the layperson as well. As all of the comments to this post quickly reveal, you don't need to read a chart to see we still live in two Americas. Let's just hope that whoever gets elected can fix that.

Dawn, Palin is not quite an environmentalist. She fought putting polar bears on the endangered species list this year because she thought there was already enough protection for them. She felt that more protection would interfere with economic development, and that includes the pipeline she's allowed that will interfere with animal migration patterns. Palin does believe in the 'precious' right to bear to arms though.

When she accepted the VP appointment, she said that she looked forward to finding out what a VP does. This is someone who never had any aspirations beyond Alaska and has not even been remotely interested in federal politics, even though she has a governorship, a journalism degree from the 80's and a high school diploma to help her have the sense to not talk like a yokel. If you elect McCain and his health issues continue, Palin could be running the country and having impact on a global level.

It's surprising that people would compare Obama to Palin, considering Obama's many pre-Senate years in law and higher education which have been the springboard for many successful leaders. Fishing and selling snowmobiles, not so much.

Palin seems like she is a well-liked governor and a spunky lady. It's not her fault that McCain overlooked so many who are in a position to lead and prepared for the job.

Shawnee

Gee, the truth speaks loudly enough that I would not have to prevaricate to make a point.

Yet the things you wrote have been thoroughly debunked by respected, impartial parties. Three minutes using Google would confirm this. If you'd like a very close-up look at Obama's birth certificate:

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

Then feel free to poke around the rest of factcheck.org and note that Obama is hardly immune to criticism there.

To get back on topic, I believe McCain's choice of Palin to be cynical, pandering, tin-eared, and most certainly a bad case of judgment if he thinks the remaining PUMAs are going to flock to his ticket because he has chosen a female -- a female whose political positions have absolutely nothing in common with Senator Clinton's. This is just another indication that the man is completely out of touch and that he doesn't think much of women in general. But we knew that already.

Lynn,
I'm really enjoying your new site.

Do you see anything in Sarah Palin's chart that indicates that she will not continue to be the VP pick? Just a gut feeling.

Sorry I missed everyone's comments yesterday. Let's see if I can catch up.

In all fairness to Dawn, there is a new rumor spreading around the internet that seems to have started on World Net Daily which shows an application for Obama to go to school in Indonesia using the last name Soetoro. Religion is given as Muslim, and citizenship as Indonesia. World Net Daily is a conservative site with a definite agenda, run by Joseph Farah who is an evangelical Christian and cohort of Rush Limbaugh. The right-wing media has jumped on this story and run with it.

There's no evidence that Obama was ever formally adopted by his stepfather, or that he renounced his US citizenship in favor of that of Indonesia. It is logical that his stepfather would have enrolled him under his name, and listing HIS religion and citizenship. Religious instruction is evidently compulsory in Indonesia. Perhaps as a US citizen he would not have been eligible to attend the school, so his stepfather listed Indonesian citizenship.

It's unfortunate that there is such a haze of mist surrounding these questions to the point where they cannot be put aside once and for all. But this is typical of the square from Neptune to the Sun in Obama's chart.

Jay, (who asks if there is anything in Palin's chart that shows that she will not continue to be the VP pick) - making predictions using astrology is a fool's game. But no, I don't see anything that would indicate that she would not be on the ticket through Election Day.

Lynn,

Are you aware that the Vogue cover is not real? It was photoshopped back in December 2007 (see http://megorious.com/pol/sarah-palin-in-vogue). The actual pictures of her in the magazine (not on the cover) are at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/sarah-palin-mccains-vp-pi_n_122389.html.

G'anne

"Religious instruction is evidently compulsory in Indonesia."

It is? Hmm, I read that the school in question was -- and still is -- secular. Someone from CNN actually went there to investigate it. They laughed at the idea. It is a Western style school, teachers wearing western clothes, children in school uniforms. A former student interviewed said not much has changed there over the years.

Snopes.com cites a similar AP report that Obama first went to a Catholic school. Then he went to a school "open to all faiths." Finally, he transferred to the secular elementary school on which the controversy centers, and where a lot of Christians attend.

Oh, well! :-)

I tried several days ago to post a link that gave a glimpse into the internet's lively buzz about Palin's youngest child, Trig. This story within a story is now emerging onto the mainstream news sites. It was not an invention on my part that the blogs were lit up with this issue - and it has interest and significance as an event in this election that this news and the internet reaction to it are a major factor in the politics of the moment - or else Sarah Palin would not have offered her rebuttal, such as it was, today. No matter what one believes about the elements of the story, that the internet communications have played a role in shaping the experience is worth noting, strange as the nature of the news is.

gaia and Nick,

2 things,

first I think often people miss the point of politics and these two issues. The death penalty is "we" the poeple executing a person for a conviction we feel is worthy of such punishement. Termination a pregnancy is one single woman making a choice to not take a conception to term. Here in lyes the real issue. I support a woman's right to choose, not because I personally think it is ok or that it is not "wrong" I support it because I don't want my govenment involved in such decisions any more than I want them telling women they have to terminate pregnancies as they do in other countries. As for the death penalty, I don't support it not because I don't think they may deserve to die for what they have done, but because I don't want anyone put to death in my, "we the poeple" name. Personally I think it is vengence not justice. which leads me to my last point. I understand that biblical literalist, see the connection between the old testement God commanding men to kill other men as proof that it is ok. My answer would be, that is the old testement in the age of Law. and I would say that we now living in the age of Grace, since Christ, it no longer applies. So, my advice to them would be....keep reading.