Wyclef Jean Disqualified from Running for President of Haiti

Sean Penn can now rest easy knowing he is the sole defender of all that is good and holy in the impoverished, earthquake ravaged nation. Wyclef Jean has been deemed ineligible to run in the November 28th Haitian presidential election.

The worst part is Jean’s proposed candidacy ended in a whimper. He made the mistake that has happened to countless neophyte, would be politicians and out of their usual stomping grounds lawyers make all the time--he did not read the local rules before filing. Jean did not meet the residency requirement, which said he must have lived in Haiti for five consecutive years prior to filing.

Jean has been in the United States since he was a young boy. While he has oe much good charity work for his native country, he does not live there. This fact seemed to be what irritated Penn. Jean lives in wealthy luxury I the United States, but decides to swoop into Haiti like a white knight o horseback. Haitians might resent such a person, considering the wealth and lifestyle gap with them. How Penn misses his hypocrisy would be beyond me if I had not had the displeasure of listening to his holier than thou clueless lectures before and therefore have a firm grasp of his mindset.

Jean is a unabashed celebrity progressive type with no political experience, but since Haiti could not possibly fall any lower, I was hoping he might make it as president. At the very least, he would not have been part of the tiny elite who have been robbing the already miserably poor population for decades. In fact, when I first heard jean was disqualified from running, I assumed said elites had cooked up some excuse to keep him out of the race. It is even sadder to learn it was just a careless mistake on Jean’s part.