.- 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.
This is just embarrassing; (leaving aside the whole juxtaposition of visiting the pregnant Virgin of Guadalupe with receiving the Margaret Sanger award for supporting abortion -- which is risible in its own right), Hillary Clinton is the U.S. Secretary of State. She's our top diplomat. She's supposed to know something about the countries and cultures she visits. The State Department Web site describes her duties thus:
The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President's chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President's foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States.Prior to this gaffe we had the gifting of a red "Reset" button with Russia that actually read "Overcharged". It's only been three months, people!
It's one thing to roll your eyes at this administration's foreign policy blunders with the understanding that they're new to this (being the junior Senator from Illinois doesn't require extensive foreign travel or contacts), but being the former First Lady of the United States means that this ain't your first roller coaster ride. One could expect better.
Even then you could say, Oh come on -- she's not Catholic and can't be expected to know every little miracle reported in the Church, if it weren't for this little detail:
Clinton then told Msgr. Monroy that she had previously visited the old Basilica in 1979, when the new one was still under construction.
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