Saturday, November 12, 2011

What kind of political foreknowledge does musician Wyclef Jean have to run for President of Haiti?

Hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean is planning to run for President of Haiti later this year, but what qualifies him to run as president? Does anyone know if he has any (if any) knowledge regarding politics, government, economics, etc.? As we all know, Haiti is a country in dire need of political, economic, and social transformation. Haiti faces political corruption, extreme poverty (it's the poorest country in the Americas and some say the Western Hemisphere), and natural disasters. It's worrisome that a rapper who dropped out of college wants to run a country where nearly 80% of the population lives on less than $2 U.S. a day. What Haiti needs is an intelligent, perseverant, college graduate who knows about political affairs, not a pompous musician who used to rap about them.

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