Posted on 03/30/2009 3:58:35 PM PDT by Reaganesque
A classic gaffe, as reported by the Catholic News Agency and a couple of Mexican papers, out of Mexico City Friday:
During her recent visit to Mexico, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unexpected stop at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and left a bouquet of white flowers “on behalf of the American people,” after asking who painted the famous image.
The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously imprinted by Mary on the tilma, or cloak, of St. Juan Diego in 1531. The image has numerous unexplainable phenomena, such as the appearance on Mary’s eyes of those present in the room when the tilma was opened and the image’s lack of decay.
Mrs. Clinton was received on Thursday at 8:15 a.m. by the rector of the Basilica, Msgr. Diego Monroy.
Msgr. Monroy took Mrs. Clinton to the famous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which had been previously lowered from its usual altar for the occasion.
After observing it for a while, Mrs. Clinton asked “who painted it?” to which Msgr. Monroy responded “God!”
The version in the Mexican press is yet more cringe-inducing: After being told it was an apparition, Clinton apparently persisted, asking, "But who painted the painting, the roses," before being informed again that God was the artist in question.
UPDATE: State Department spokesman Robert Wood said he didn't recall the incident from the trip, but couldn't be certain whether it had taken place or not.
“Who de lady?” - Hillary
And she would have been portrayed in cartoons as a monkey, with no cry from sharpton/jackson/naacp/aclu.
A more ignorant bunch of people could not be found, but the endlessly congratulate themselves for their erudition.
And since they spend their lives in an echo chamber, who’s to tell them otherwise?
The clerics must be wrong. H! is the smartest woman in the world and a really quick study.
Spot on.
“the world’s most intelligent woman”!
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No. Just another piece of White Trash!
I still rather have her as our president than Obama... she would have done less damage...
Yes but he called it a legend.
Yes well I guess unless you re Catholic the testimony of a Bishop and other people present in the room at the time constitutes a “legend”?
¡Idiota!
Claro!
“Yes well I guess unless you re Catholic the testimony of a Bishop and other people present in the room at the time constitutes a “legend”?”
And don’t forget her eyes!
Google Our Lady of Guadalupe eyes - fascinating!
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