Posted on 03/22/2011 10:24:38 PM PDT by quantim
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- President Barack Obama stood, eyes closed, in a personal moment of silence before the tomb of slain Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, whose fight for the poor during El Salvador's bloody civil war made him a national hero - and an international figure in human rights.
The visit Tuesday in the final hours of Obama's five-day swing through Latin America was a symbolic gesture that some called U.S. recognition of Romero's cause.
Obama toured the national cathedral with Monsignor Jose Luis Escobar Alas, the current archbishop, and paid respects to a man ordered killed 31 years ago by an official in El Salvador's U.S.-backed army.
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Or, that’s he’s not elligible to be president....Let’s not forget that.
the guy started a major war 3 days ago and hasn’t stepped foot in his own country yet.. what a leader
The AP neglected to mention that Carter was president at the time, and that it’s uncertain as to which side shot the monseigneur.
0bama’s mission to El Salvador was simply to preach some good old communist Liberation Theology.....and invite all the oppressed up to the US.
I’m all in favor of moments where Obama is silent. We need more of them— lots more.
A new video of Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. -—http://www.aim.org/aim-column/controversial-new-video-of-obamas-pastor/
Obama is a Marxist Muslim and he just keeps having to prove it.
Thank you for the link.
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