It is the miraculous view of life versus the secular-bureaucratic, the claim of a higher law versus Janet Reno. Watching these born-again liberal champions of parental rights and family values is good for a few laughs. But there is something distinctly sinister about it, too. This was startling, not because it is all that rare an attitude, but because it is rarely so openly expressed. The view of Ms. Clift, the archetypal Clintonian, is not that much different from that of the boy's Commie father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who was asked in a fawning softball interview with Dan Rather if Elian would lose his freedom if forced to return to Cuba.
Freedom is, for example, in Cuba, where education and health care are free.
For example, here when parents send their children to school they have to worry about violence. A child could be shot at school. In Cuba, things like that don't happen. The Elegua had to be returned to Cuba for the protection of an atheist dictator who believes all of the Santeros' prophecies. Soon after these predictions became known, Castro began his speeches, roaring threateningly, as he always does.