Wyclef Jean Officially Announces Campaign For President Of Haiti On CNN

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by Frances Martel | 10:12 pm, August 5th, 2010

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It’s official, and straight from the horse’s mouth this time: musician Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti. Jean joined Wolf Blitzer on Larry King Live tonight to explain his decision and what he offers to the people of Haiti.

Asked initially by Blitzer whether he was, indeed, running, Jean responded with an attempt to get Blitzer to speak creole. Blitzer, confused, asked him to postpone the language lessons until the finished talking politics. Jean finally said yes: “this is my first time announcing it live,” he is running. He tells Blitzer that he is running not entirely out of his own volition, but because he is “being drafted by the youth of Haiti” into the job, the youth that have seen the status quo of their political system for so long be “corruption and ineptitude,” as Dr. Sanjay Gupta put it in the following segment.

Blitzer also asked him a question that almost everyone who heard the news asked themselves almost instantly: what qualifies Wyclef Jean to be the leader of a nation? “When I look at the past 200 years, with what our people have suffered, Wolf,” he answered, “coups after coup d’etats… me running brings a neutral situation, meaning that Wyclef Jean can sit with any politician.”

The elections are scheduled for this November, after having been postponed due to the devastating earthquake earlier this year. His official announcement on CNN below:

2010 elections, CNN, Haiti, Larry King Live, Sanjay Gupta, Wolf Blitzer, Wyclef Jean

murf

Hasn’t Haiti been through enough already ?
http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

Why not go for a bigger con man ? Al Sharpton , Jesse Jackson , Jesse Jackson , Jr . , Danny Glover , Jimmie Walker , Barack Obama , Roland Burris , Charlie Rangel , Sheila Jackson-Lee , Cynthia Mckinney , Adam Clayton Powell the 3rd , Matt Damon , Barney Frank , Al Franken (stein ) ,Anthony Weiner , Valerie (Bon Qui Qui) Jarrett , Chris Dodd , Richard Blumenthal , John Edwards , Mike Gravel , Pauly Shore , Jennifer Granholm , Vince ShamWow , Bill Richardson , Vicente Fox , Ed Schultz , Donny Deutsch , Joe Scarborough , Chuck Todd , Peter ( Daily kos guy ) Lorre , Zsa Zsa Huffington , Thomas Friedman , Marwan Habib , Charles Logan , and the list goes on . Actually , Jimmie Walker would do a good job .
puck30

Nice track record, I’m impressed. Just what they to run that place.

(From Winki)

“Yéle Haiti, and its predecessor the Wyclef Jean Foundation, have been involuntarily dissolved by the Florida Division of Corporations on multiple occasions for failing to file required state disclosure reports.[23] Of the $1,142,944 in total revenue the foundation collected in 2006, at least $410,000 was paid directly to Jean and his business partner for rent, production services, and Jean’s appearance at a benefit concert.”

And as they say, “wait there’s more”!

“On 4 August 2010, The Smoking Gun reported that Jean owes the IRS $2.1 million.”

With a resume like that Haiti is small potatoes. Wyclef should try for a job in the Obama Administration.
puck30

Just what they need to run that place
Big_F-ing_Deal

I’m sure he’ll do fine.

Why all the haiti?
Moderate

I would assume Jesse Jackson Jr.’s career is finished in this country. He should try Haiti, he could not do any worse for that country.
BatBoy

Several years ago I worked with a young Nigerian college student. He was complaining about our country.

I said, “Why don’t you stay here, get your education, then go home and clean up your own country!”

His answer, “No way, it is too corrupt!”

At least with Wyclef Jean running, the people have a choice between a “frying pan” and a “fire!”

God help those people…they are doomed no matter what way they go!