Dumb and dumber.
Mexico City, Mexico, Mar 27, 2009 / 04:59 pm (CNA).- 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.
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Look, doesn't she have a staff to advise her? Sure she does! But it is evident that she is too cocksure, too impressed with herself to listen. Actually, I feel sorry for her staff, though they all be Demos and most likely Leftie Demos. I had too many bosses like her who flew into town to help and left after making things worse...
But that was just business. This is the country we are speaking of.
Hat tip to Urgent Agenda.
Perhaps she asked if it was painted because it appears that way:
ReplyDelete... recent studies of the image are feeding centuries-old uncertainty over its origin, says Leoncio Garza-Valdes, 61, who in 1999 was part of a team that evaluated the cloth.
"The cloak of Our Lady of Guadalupe is not one painting but three paintings, and one is signed and dated. So this is not a miraculous image; it was created by man," Garza-Valdes said.
... In the earliest painting, Garza-Valdes says, the female figure was quite different, and one can see the shadowy presence of a naked baby Jesus, reclining in the Virgin's left arm.
He believes this original image was borrowed from a well-known statue in a basilica in Extremadura, Spain, which he recently inspected. And he says the initials of the artist, M.A. for Marcos Aquino, a historical figure, can be seen in the corner of the painting, next to the date: 1556.
... In photos of what the scientist calls the second and third Virgins, distinct changes to the figure's facial features are easily seen. In the final image, the eyes of the Virgin have become smaller, and her features are less Indian. And, Garza-Valdes says, her face has been moved roughly 6 inches on the canvas.
... This conclusion corresponds with those of a church-commissioned study by Jose Sol Rosales. The Mexican expert in art restoration concluded the painting was the work of human artists, using identifiable 17th-century materials and techniques, and was not the result of a supernatural event....
We didn't hire Hillary as an art critic or historian or expert.
ReplyDeleteObamie, in what is turning out to be his usual standards for appointing people, named her SecofState.
It is not the purpose of our foreign policy to tell the Catholics of Mexico and the world, that their beliefs are wrong.
And if correcting religious beliefs is part of Obamie's foreign policy he has a book called the Koran and a religion called Islam that has many opportunities for education.