By Steve Dunleavy. The New York Post, April 5
VIDAL Francisco Vidal Blanca could see the future instantly the moment he realized he would be locked up forever if he stayed in Cuba one more minute.
"I was on the plane in November 1959, and people were getting executed," he said yesterday.
Back then, he was in danger of imprisonment because he was interested in making an honest living.
He took a look into a crystal ball, and that got him the hell out. He left Cuba to become a giant among interior designers for hotels in Miami, despite the fact he arrived flat broke.
As in nada. No dinero.
"I walked six times 300 blocks to finally get a job as a designer," he said. "I didn't have a bus fare, and my wife and I wasn't eating. But I knew I would do it. I had a crystal ball.
"And other Cubans who risked their lives had a crystal ball. This was America. Boy, was it good."
And now Vidal Francisco Vidal Blanca is looking into his crystal ball again in the travesty of justice that surrounds Elian Gonzalez.
"Of course Janet Reno is a handmaiden to a pimp," he said. "That poor lady."
He is, I suspect, talking about our president, who you may know better as Hillary's campaign manager.
Cuban-Americans who have had their friends slaughtered, their fathers taken away, tend to talk in extremes.
"This rubbish about Elian and the pimp called Clinton," he said.
"How come the New York Times doesn't understand that Clinton is setting up his legacy?
"He is about to normalize relations with Cuba. Gore says, ‘Save Elian from a dictatorship.' That is a con job. Clinton normalizes relations with Cuba and cuts off the embargo."
It is not accidental, I would think, that lawyer Gregory Craig represents Juan Miguel Gonzalez, father of little Elian.
I am not quite sure who is paying him for his brilliant representation of this man, Juan Miguel, who a Cuban court denied custody of little Elian.
We do know Craig is an extremely close friend of the Clintonistas.
Remember his face? No? Remember impeachment?
Yeah, that was the face of Gregory Craig on page one, arguing that Clinton, like George Washington, never told a lie.
That's on the scale of Claude Rains in "Casablanca" at the airport saying, "Round up the usual suspects."
But let me indulge Vidal Francisco Vidal Blanca.
"Now, do you see it?" Francisco asked. "Clinton's handmaiden represents a communist pig. Why? Do I have to draw pictures, which I do for a living?
"Clinton wants to go down in history. He demands a legacy. He doesn't ask for it. He demands it and will do anything to get it.
" A new story? Not really. President Richard Nixon took away the liberal fight over Vietnam by pulling out.
"He angered the liberals by sending Kissinger to Russia so many times he should have got frequent flyer miles. And Nixon went to China.
"Nixon took away his opposition's fight. Now Clinton is going to use this same thinking. He will stop the embargo on Cuba. Oh, the liberals will love this, and there will be some Cubans who might think, ‘Oh, my mother will get more food now.'
"I understand the shark who eats votes. But a real Cuban will spit in the pimp's face. Let me tell you, this will be his so-called legacy. The legacy of a pimp.
"OK, lay in bed with Castro -- a murderer, a butcher, a rapist -- and to hell with a little boy called Elian. Please go to mass and pray for that little human I have never met but would take into my home today.
"This Cuban will spit in Clinton's face and burn his picture. We all have to die, but we have to die with honor. That's all I want to say."
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