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Jeb Bush Joins McCain on Tour of Basilica in Mexico City

Sen. John McCain, his wife Cindy McCain, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, listen as Monsignor Diego Monroy Ponce, left, discusses details from an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, July 3, 2008. (Associated Press)
By Juliet Eilperin
MEXICO CITY -- Paying homage to one of the holiest sites for Mexican Roman Catholics, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) visited the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe this morning along with his wife and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
The president's younger brother, who has been friendly with McCain for several years and is often mentioned as a possible future presidential candidate, was in town on business.
"I think he's going to win," Bush said of McCain. "He just needs to be himself and not let Senator Obama redefine himself."
McCain zipped over to the Basilica, which lies north of Mexico City, in a 16-minute motorcade ride that traversed closed roads as angry drivers nearby expressed their discontent by honking. A monsignor met the presumptive nominee and took him to the altar, where the senator laid a wreath of white roses.
The wreath harkens back to a tradition in the legend of the Virgin of Guadalupe, in which an Indian peasant in the 1400s saw the Virgin Mary but his fellow villagers did not believe him. During his second religious vision, according to the legend, the Virgin Mary provided him with a bed of roses that were out of season to prove her existence, but it was only after his third vision, when he obtained a special garment, that he was able to convince others he had seen her.
After describing an altar painting to McCain the monsignor gave him a blessing, with one hand on the senator's forehead and another on his shoulder. During the blessing, Cindy McCain stood next to her husband with her head bowed and her eyes closed.
The Basilica was built in the 1970s after the original -- which took more than a century to construct and was completed in the early 1700s -- experienced foundation problems. The original still stands, and is now open to the public.
Bush and McCain did not speak to reporters during their tour, but at one point, when McCain was looking at the older section of the basilica, the former governor expressed confidence that the White House would stay in GOP hands.
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Posted by: voltosanto | July 7, 2008 1:13 AM | Report abuse
our lovinf savier JESUS CHRIST WILL NOT
ALLOW A PRO DEATH CANDIDATE TO WIN
THERE ARE NO ODDS WHEN YOU DEAL
WITH GOD. GOD THE FATHER CREATES
LIFE THE PEOPLE LIKE OBAMA SEE IT OK
TO DESTROY THE FATHER,S WORK.
Posted by: rob kuebrich | July 6, 2008 8:18 PM | Report abuse
@joyfullady
http://www.rhenania-buchversand.de/appDE/nav_product--product--843024.htm
"at the desk of John Paul II there was a single picture: the Lady of Guadelupe".
the book (see link) will be out in English language soon!
Posted by: voltosanto | July 6, 2008 7:14 AM | Report abuse
Upstarts!
Posted by: Lieberman's Brain | July 5, 2008 1:54 PM | Report abuse
JOHN MC CAIN IN CHURCH. GOOD.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY MECHELE OBAMA NEEDS A MAKEOVER. SHE IS 5'11" TALL, GRACEFUL AND DIGNIFIED. SHE HAS AN ENTERNAL BEAUTY THAT COMES FROM FAITH AND SERVICE. SHE DRESSES RESPECTIBLY. SHE HAS ONLY BEEN MARRIED ONCE AND TO THE SAME MAN. SHE IS A DEVOTED WIFE AND MOTHER. SHE IS SMART AND INDEPENDENT. SHE IS THE IMMAGE THAT I WOULD WANT TO SEE IN OUR AMERICAN GIRLS AND WOMEN. HONESTY, STRENGTH, PERSISTANCE, AND MANY OTHER STRONG QUALITIES. AND YET WE CRITIZE HER. I SAW THIS WITH JOHN KERRY'S WIFE. I THINK IT IS BECAUSE SOME OF US ARE NOT CONFORTABLE WITH WOMEN WHO CAN THINK FOR THEMSELVES. MSR. MC CAIN WORE AN ORANG BLOUSE THAT SHOWED TOO MUCH CLEAVAGE AND A WHITE SKIRT WITH A VRY HIGH SPLIT. WAS THAT TO MAKE HER HUSBAND LOOK YOUNGER? SHE LOOKS LIKE A BARBIE DOLL. I NEVER LIKED BARBIE DOLLS FOR MY GIRLS BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT THEM TO THINK THAT SEXUALITY WAS NECESSARY TO SUCCEED. I THINK THAT THE OLDER MEN FIND THE BARBIE DOLLS MORE MANAGEABLE, MORE DEPENDENT AND LESS LIKELY TO HAVE AN INDEPENDENT THOUGHT. MICHELL WALKS WITH OBAMA, MRS MC CAIN WALKS BEHIND HE HUSBAND WHO TREPRESENTS US.
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Posted by: JANE | July 5, 2008 12:51 PM | Report abuse
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Posted by: eh7ug5vtry | July 5, 2008 11:59 AM | Report abuse
Wouldn't it be a better idea to PRAY for Sen. McCain...rather than find so much fault? I give him much credit for visiting the shrine of Guadalupe. Many many miracles have happened there. It would be wonderful if he decided to become totally anti-abortion. Obama = a total socialist country...and extremely pro-abortion. There has NEVER been a country where SOCIALISM has succeeded! Jan C.
Posted by: joyfullady@aol.com | July 4, 2008 11:09 PM | Report abuse
To Juliet Eilperin, Your facts are incorrect in regards to the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe. What you see in the photo is not a "painting" but an image - not even the scientists can explain how this image is on a cactus fiber burlap type cloth, called a tilma, which is over 450 years old. Usually such a fabric would only last 20 years. The tilma was what Juan Diego wore when he saw Our Lady. After arranging the roses growing on the mountain in the middle of the winter, Our Lady arranged them in the Tilma and Juan was told to only open them in the presence of Bishop Zumaraga. When he did the roses fell, which were an answered prayer of the Bishop to verify Our Lady's appearances, the image came onto the tilma. It has since been venerated for 450 years because of this miracle and what Our Lady tells us through this image, (another story). If you want any more info, write elnjnt@gmail.com
Posted by: Ellen Tamburri | July 4, 2008 10:57 PM | Report abuse
"The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later."
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Now to be fair, Johnny stayed married to carol for 8 years after he got back, so he didn't dump her right away....on the other hand, he basically cheated on her from the minute he hoped off the plane and saw that carol was no longer a hottie.
It takes an extraordinary man to stay with a wife who has been so altered; despite McCain's bravery and care for his fellow prisoners in Nam, when it comes to women, apparently old Johnny is not so extraordinary or brave.
Posted by: GObama | July 4, 2008 9:57 PM | Report abuse
Sorry, I 100% agree with voltosanto instead of OhJohnny Boy, who I disagree with
Posted by: Fran | July 4, 2008 6:19 PM | Report abuse
I 100% agree with Oh Johnny Boy from Bavaria and Christina from Europe! Obummer is a flagrant abortionist sympathizer and homoromeo sympathizer. MCCAIN 2008!!!
Posted by: Fran | July 4, 2008 6:13 PM | Report abuse
Posted by: voltosanto | July 4, 2008 3:14 PM | Report abuse
Forgotten woman: But despite all her problems Carol McCain says she still adores he ex-husband McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.
But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator's presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain's three eldest children.
And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain's first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.
She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam's infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.
Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.
Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.
For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.
Posted by: Oh Johnny Boy | July 4, 2008 2:58 PM | Report abuse
hello from Bavaria!
I`m living in that Area where BXVI was practicing before he went to Rome.
A friend of mine, Paul Badde, was in Guadelupe yesterday. He wrote a fascinating book about St. Mary of Guadelupe years ago.
He brought the news to
http://kath.net/ (Austria)
I would be pleased to read some comments from oversea in:
http://www.kathtube.com/player.php?id=4736
(you have to submit for commenting)
my personal opinion to your election in November is, that this is such an important decision not even for America but for the whole world, that the first of all Ladies, the Mother of us all, interferes.
take me for crazy, but I have to write this!
Posted by: voltosanto | July 4, 2008 2:54 PM | Report abuse
It's wonderful to see them visiting this holy place where the miraculous tilma of Our Lady is.
The original is suspended high up on the altar out of reach. Satan has tried to destroy it several times just as he has the Shroud of Turin, but he keeps loosing.
As Europe was diabolically being attacked to destroy the Catholic Faith, Jesus' Church, God sent Our Lady to convert millions in the New World by her appearance and miracle.
The murder of thousands of people daily by horrendous rituals ceased thanks to Our Mother.
Mr & Mrs McCain adopted years ago a child from Mother Theresa's orphanage in Calcutta. This shows a compassionate heart open to the graces from God.
Obama would fake being comfortable by this image, because he is an agent of evil. Any person that approves of the murder of the innocents, that need to be protected inside the womb, has a very evil nature, and has no business running for president of the US because a president must love life and be ready to protect his/her citizens, as a father protects his wife and children.
Obama carries a false god idol with him - a god monkey from the hindu occult. Should this guy represent our nation? Can he protect it from evil if he is worshipping evil himself?
Recently President Bush, who has been fortunate to meet with the Holy Father Pope Benedict several times, was asked what he sees when he looks into the Pope's eyes. Without hesitation, he responded 'God'. The Pope and the faith has the fullness of the Truth, and is in intense obedience to God.
Hey USA - this is a critical election - vote for the person that desires truth and holiness and to protect the US from offending God, who is already very much offended !!!
Posted by: Christina | July 4, 2008 2:42 PM | Report abuse
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Posted by: voltosanto | July 4, 2008 2:17 PM | Report abuse
The reporters ignorance of Guadalupe is embarrassing.
Juan Diego was not given a garment, he used his own tilma to gather up roses.
The priest is not describing an altar painting.
He is pointing to the actual image that was left on Juan Diego's tilma.
Sheesh.
Posted by: Amy | July 4, 2008 11:53 AM | Report abuse
What is the point of visiting the Basilica de Guadalupe? Why would a presidential candidate, member of the anglican church, would pick to visit the Basilica on a trip to Mexico? Aren't there better choices, like the National Museum of Anthropology and History or any other sites of historical value? It is clear that he wanted to take his picture with the Virgen de Guadalupe to use it as a way to get the votes of those US citizens with a latinamerican background. Guess what! This action is going to backfire. It is the most hypocritical action taken by McCain. In top of this visit, he declared will continue to build a wall in the border!! Bravo Mr McCain! You just gave your votes to Obama! Viva Obama!!
Posted by: Michael Zillow | July 4, 2008 3:46 AM | Report abuse
"Remove the beam from your own eye before you try to remove the splinter from another"
Posted by: francis33 | July 4, 2008 2:25 AM | Report abuse
Then let's pray that Sen. McCain be converted to Catholicism, i.e. True Traditional Catholicism, NOT the Vatican-II-Novus-Ordo religion.
Posted by: Jason | July 3, 2008 11:36 PM | Report abuse
IT IS GREAT TO SEE MC CAIN SO OPEN MINDED. THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE THINGS I LIKE VERY MUCH ABOUT HIM. HE IS A STRONG MAN WITH THE LEADERSHIP QUALITIES THAT ARE SO BADLY NEEDED FOR OUR COUNTRY TODAY. I PRAY TO GOD THAT HE BECOMES OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'D PRAY TO FOR THE OTHER CANDIDATE, YOU KNOW--THE ONE WHO THINKS IT'S JUST FINE TO PUT TO DEATH LIVING BABIES WHO SURVIVE ABORTIONS, WELL THEN AGAIN MAYBE I DO KNOW AND I'LL BET YOU DO TOO.
Posted by: catherine b. | July 3, 2008 11:01 PM | Report abuse
IT IS GREAT TO SEE MC CAIN SO OPEN MINDED. THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE THINGS I LIKE VERY MUCH ABOUT HIM. HE IS A STRONG MAN WITH THE LEADERSHIP QUALITIES THAT ARE SO BADLY NEEDED FOR OUR COUNTRY TODAY. I PRAY TO GOD THAT HE BECOMES OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'D PRAY TO FOR THE OTHER CANDIDATE, YOU KNOW--THE ONE WHO THINKS IT'S JUST FINE TO PUT TO DEATH LIVING BABIES WHO SURVIVE ABORTIONS, WELL THEN AGAIN MAYBE I DO KNOW AND I'LL BET YOU DO TOO.
Posted by: catherine b. | July 3, 2008 10:59 PM | Report abuse
Another picture with Lieberman in it. Is that man a shadow of McCain? Liberman wants to be the Cheney of McBush. I had not taken the idea of Lieberman for vice president serious but this makes me wonder.
McCain is Lieberman's poodle.
Posted by: Gator-ron | July 3, 2008 9:14 PM | Report abuse
There sure are a lot of hateful letters above. Nice Christians, no? Let me remind the haters of Jesus Christ and Christianity that Jebs Bush's wife isn't running for president. So why drag her into the fray?
Posted by: Philip Saenz | July 3, 2008 9:13 PM | Report abuse
How how I hope McSame picks Jeb as his VP. With his drug addled daughter and a wife who's a felon and Jeb's own Hurricane Andrew/FEMA scandal...a gift from above! If you think McCain didn't stand a chance before, with Jeb on the ticket the dems will be dancing in the street.
Posted by: Bill | July 3, 2008 8:37 PM | Report abuse
It is not a painting it is a Miraculous image!
Posted by: Joe | July 3, 2008 8:16 PM | Report abuse
N.B. It was on the feast/Anniversary of the miracle of the Image, December 12, 2000 that President Bush won the election.
Your story contained many factual errors concerning Our Lady of Guadalupe.
She appeared to St. Juan Diego for the first time on 12/09/1531 on Tepeyac Hill. She requested that he tell the Bishop that she desired a chapel built for her in her honor. The Bishop had been praying to the Virgin for peace and for the Aztec people. He did not believe Jaun, after Jaun's second apparition, the bishop requested a sign from the Virgin -
Roses. On Dec. 12th, she had Jaun pick the Roses, she arranged them in his tilma. When Jaun was finally admitted into the Bishop's office, one of the soldiers ripped open the tilma. The Roses fell to the floor. The Image appeared on the tilma. She appears as the Woman of Revelation 12. The Images, colors, symbols etc, had deep meaning for the Aztec people, hence over the next 10 years they converted. In the 1890's it was discovered that the eyes of the Virgin reflect the scene of the men present when the Image was given. Studies have failed to show any natural means for the Image's existence.
A painted copy of the Image was put on the lead ship during the Naval Battle of Lepanto, which was won on October 7, 1572 when the Moors were finally rooted out of Europe. Of note, the USA enterted into the war in Afghanistan on this date in 2001
Our Lady has been proclaimed the Empresses of the Americas, she is also the Patroness of the unborn has she is with child.
Posted by: Mary T Carr | July 3, 2008 8:06 PM | Report abuse
This makes me sick and all the candidates are in on it. Gewt ready to burn the Consttution.
Posted by: Roger C | July 3, 2008 7:54 PM | Report abuse
Posted by: roger C | July 3, 2008 7:49 PM | Report abuse
With such a poor list of Presidential candidates i'm afraid McCan is all we've got, right on time to shore up NAFTA and get is synthesize for the North American union (NAU) and the Amero. Crazy you say check what your friendly US congress has been doing while you sleep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFUo92FVCG8&feature=related
Posted by: Roger C | July 3, 2008 7:49 PM | Report abuse
Notice, Obama doesn't go near a Catholic Church
Posted by: Frank | July 3, 2008 7:21 PM | Report abuse
Did he come to thank him for trying to continue his brother policies.
Maybe he can compare his drug addicted daughter with McCain drug addicted wife.
Posted by: Julian | July 3, 2008 7:20 PM | Report abuse
Did McCain say something in Mexico like; I'll address immigration reform in my 1st 100 days?
After lawmakers phones were shut down last year because of the sneak attack "Immigration Reform Bill", he said I heard the American people; "Close The Border Before any "Plans".
"Legal" Immigration reform Does need to be fixed. Some people who have played by the rules have waited up to 15+ years for citizenship! But, sneak into the country, disrespect American's laws, traditions & language, wave your homeland flag, denounced America as racist & demand citizenship, Wham! Lawmakers will fall over themselves helping them.
McCain likes comparing himself to Teddy Roosevelt. When he does, Roosevelt rolls in his gave & screams! McCain says; My friends in Mexico, walk on in anytime, break America's laws & we will reward you with freebies & citizenship! Tell your friends in Mexico, in 10 or so years we will reward Them Too!
Teddy believed; "No man is above the law and no man is below it: Nor do we Ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it." McCain believes; America only punishes honest immigrants following the law, illegals are exempt from prosecution!
Teddy believed; "Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country." McCain believes; illegals bring your tattered homeland flag, language & customs. American taxpayers will support you & put their traditions language aside. They will revamp America's schools, laws, courts & whatever you want to accommodate all your needs. Unlike the millions of "Legal Immigrants" before you, who willingly assimilated into America, You Do Not Have To! America will assimilate for You & all your needs! Sen. You Lost My Vote!
Has anybody seen this, add the http
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Posted by: Josh | July 3, 2008 6:38 PM | Report abuse
Juan Diego got the roses from the Blessed Virgin Mary and put them in his tilma (cloak made from cactus fiber) and carried them to the Bishop, who was the one who asked for proof. When Juan opened up his tilma to reveal the roses, the famous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe miraculously appeared. One of the proofs that it was, indeed, a miraculous event was that the image is on a cloak made of vegetable material that should have disintegrated centuries ago...but it is still intact.
For more about the image itself, visit - ourladyofguadalupe.org/ologimage.htm
Posted by: PT | July 3, 2008 6:07 PM | Report abuse
Your article references the "1400's" for the miracle of the Indian peasant, Saint Juan Diego. I believe the year was 1531. I'm not surprised that your reporter is not familiar with Catholic history.
Posted by: Bob | July 3, 2008 5:17 PM | Report abuse
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Posted by: 6zdjloqenn | July 3, 2008 5:07 PM | Report abuse
This is great to see them visiting this Holy Shrine! Vote for McCain...NOT Barak Hussein Mohammad Obama!
Vote McCain!
Posted by: vince | July 3, 2008 4:39 PM | Report abuse
Jeb Bush formed Gov. of Florida and his drug addict family and a wife that was arrested for smuggling. Nice family, his name isn't even Jeb.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 3, 2008 3:08 PM | Report abuse
Did you see his interview. He said it is about the security of the country and that is why he has gone there. At the same time the pool of reporters who are traveling with him sat it has never been mentioned. All he talks about is trade. Assuring anyone who will listen he has no interest in renegotiating Nafta and will not touch it.\ they have nothing to worry about. It as a of he thinks the reporters are not listening as he lies in the interview and the pool of reporters say something completely different. The guy isn't even elected yet and he is stabbing us in the back.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 3, 2008 2:58 PM | Report abuse
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we have 8.000.000 souls which weren`t allowed to see the daylight sinc 1976 in Germany.
they`ve been aborted.
years ago, when I would have read this lines, I would have thought: "Crazy man, fanatic man, we have got bigger problems than legal abortion.
but I am not fanatic. I see and feel that all culture and humanity begins when life begins. life which is totally helpless and needing protection.
and how we handle this new life, the people of tomorrow, THAT defines our level of culture.
I`m an engineer in a plant which produces machines for wafer processing, I got 2 children, I`m really normal.
and I think the environment I live in is NOT normal. Mother Mary helps me to stay normal...