I know, I know. You\u2019re upset. You think the guy you fell in love with last spring is spending the summer flip-flopping his way to the right. Drifting to the center. Going all moderate on you. So you\u2019re withholding the love. Also possibly the money.<\/p>\n
I feel your pain. I just don\u2019t know what candidate you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n
Think back. Why, exactly, did you prefer Obama over Hillary Clinton in the first place? Their policies were almost identical \u2014 except his health care proposal was more conservative. You liked Barack because you thought he could get us past the old brain-dead politics, right? He talked \u2014 and talked and talked \u2014 about how there were going to be no more red states and blue states, how he was going to bring Americans together, including Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n
Exactly where did everybody think this gathering was going to take place? Left field?
\nWhen an extremely intelligent politician tells you over and over and over that he is tired of the take-no-prisoners politics of the last several decades, that he is going to get things done and build a \u201cnew consensus,\u201d he is trying to explain that he is all about compromise. Even if he says it in that great Baracky way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There\u2019s no doubt that on June 23, when Obama went through a double Mars\/Uranus whammy (with transiting Uranus (radical change, revolution) opposing Mars (drive, desire, aggressive instincts) in his chart and transiting Mars conjunct Uranus in his chart) he did a whole lot of flip-flopping. Less important to me personally was the reversal on public finance reform (I do, after all, want him to get elected) than his signing of the FISA bill granting immunity to telecom companies in a clear violation of his earlier pledge. And I was angry that it took him a week to communicate to his supporters why he had done so. But I wasn\u2019t surprised, because when we\u2019re in a big Mars\/Uranus event we are feeling rebellious, even reckless. We\u2019re on a mission and no one will stop us.<\/p>\n
Transiting Uranus has been stationary in this move against Obama\u2019s Mars since May, and it is just now beginning to retrograde back out of range. The final hit of this cycle will occur in March of 2009. During this same period transiting Jupiter (expansion, optimism) has been harmoniously aspecting Obama\u2019s Mars and he is more confident than ever before.<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s Neptune\/Sun square made it easy to believe that he would be the ideal leader we have all been waiting for, the man who could be all things to all people. Now we know that is not the case. Still, the fact is that in moving to the center to facilitate the important changes, like ending the war and stopping the flood of wealth and security away from the middle class, we may have to forfeit some of our personal agendas.<\/p>\n
This video of Obama\u2019s speech on the war shows that he is still the guy we voted for.<\/p>\n