Wyclef confirms presidential run 2010-08-05 by Dave de Sylvia EMERITUS | 22 Comments | Wyclef Jean has confirmed that he will run for the presidency of Haiti later this year.
Jean told Time magazine: "My decision was a draft — I’m being drafted by the youth, meaning that, as a Haitian citizen, if I’m to just stand back for another five years, for everything that I stand up [for] and just watch this country get toppled, after going on the ground picking up bodies — dead bodies of kids — then I won’t be able to sleep at night."
The modest rapper - who emigrated to New York from Haiti as a child - went on to compare himself with Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture: "I say, well, as a modern-day Toussaint Louverture, if he was here today, what he would say is: dual citizenship for all Haitians that have left the country. And they should have a seat within the voting because they are the ones that are holding up the Haitian economy.”
Wyclef, through his charity Yele Haiti, has helped raise millions of dollars for the poverty-stricken nation in the wake of the devastating earthquake in February of this year. The charity was later investigated for financial irregularities.
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If he was presiiideeeenttt
He'd be elected on Fridayyyy
Assassinated on Saturdayy
Buried on Sundayyy
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....we'll see how this goes.
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I kinda wouldn't be surprised if he made it
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yeah i remember hearing about his corrupt charity
this should work out well
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please no,
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Lol. Drafted by kids? So because he is a minor celebrity, he feels it's his duty to run for president in Haiti? Lol.
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He'll win
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Lol. Drafted by kids? So because he is a minor celebrity, he feels it's his duty to run for president in Haiti? Lol.
What? That's not it at all. Have you even read anything regarding his opinion of Haitian politics?
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Really happy for Haiti.
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Skeptical about after hearing about the supposedly-corrupt charity. Still, he seems pretty sincere from what I've read, I hope he (or whoever will be elected) will be able to pull the country out of this s*it that it's in now.
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i daresay he's over qualified
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the only qualification for running for president in haiti is not being dead yet.
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lol ^
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this would be kind of cool.
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lolwut this is crazy
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i'm not gonna lie, i'm kinda rooting for him.
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we'll see about that Hobbes.
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Where Fugees at?
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i'm not gonna lie, i'm kinda rooting for him.[2]
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Why would you lie?
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He will be good at it. I am completely lying though.
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He'd be dead by Saturday.
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