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The dinner drew the expected cynical criticism that the boy was being paraded around for prospective Democratic donors, but the nastiest comments came from an apparently envious Georgetown maven, who seemed surprised that the Bagleys would entertain guests of such lesser means -- like, say, working-class communists from Cuba.

"This is really astonishing," the unnamed source told the Washington Times. "After all the talk about how Elián was put on exhibit in Miami, the Bagleys were a party to this. They don't usually invite their chauffeur or his children to dinner."
salon.com | May 10, 2000

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