Wyclef Jean on NPR ATC August 9 (Wyclef refers to Wyclef in 3rd person, again)

[Billy Burnett]

Wyclef notes that Wyclef will have to be an elected minister of parliament in order for Wyclef to even run for president.

Wyclef refuses to disclose Wyclef's platform or considered appointees by Wyclef ... because the opposition is listening. :eyes:

Oh ... he's a tax dodger too. Wyclef denies that Wyclef is.


link to audio and transcript ...

Wyclef Jean Makes Case For His Candidacy In Haiti
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129090122

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Who does he think he is Rickey Henderson?

Henderson was known for being an illeist, referring to himself in the third person. One unconfirmed story reports seeing him standing naked in front of a mirror before a game, practicing his swing, and declaring, "Rickey's the best! Rickey's the best!"<70>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickey_Henderson

[naaman fletcher]

4. Yeah, but,

It worked. If that's what it took Henderson to get pumped up for the game, so be it. So he's and asshole and a great ball player. Wyclef Jean is an asshole and a great musician. However I don't think the asshole quality is what Haiti needs in a leader.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Yeah, that was what we in the business call a joke. nt

[rabs]

2. Seems that at the moment there are 34 candidates

As Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) begins the process of reviewing the paperwork of 34 presidential hopefuls, including Haiti-born Hip Hop star Wyclef Jean, there is uncertainty and tension about which candidates will make the final list to be released Aug. 17. The presidential race has attracted a wide spectrum of candidates, including at least seven self-declared, and undeclared candidates from former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s Fanmi Lavalas political party.

But while some in the international community are optimistic of the increasing momentum, others are waiting to see if the expected political fallout from the electoral body’s decision on the candidates’ qualifications will plunge an already quake-ravaged Haiti into violence or governmental crisis.

“This is a very volatile situation. The easiest thing they can say is `You are all candidates.’ But I don’t know if they will do that,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti-born political expert at the University of Virginia. “It’s going to be fascinating to see how many are in the race after Aug. 17.”

Should it accept all or most of the candidates including Jean, former prime ministers Alexis and Yvon Neptune, and Leslie Voltaire, an urban planner and former Aristide cabinet member, it will make for a complicated race where anyone can end up the winner.

At issue are the seven constitutional requirements one must meet to run for president of Haiti, and how the CEP will decide who among the hopefuls meet them. Will it lean on the side of a legal interpretation, or political influence in its decision-making as it determines the fate of some of the most high-profile candidates, several of whom face legal questions about their qualifications to run?

“Any decision they take carries risk,” said Monferrier Dorval, a law professor at the State University of Haiti.

http://www.haitian-truth.org/anxiety-rises-as-final-cut-of-haiti-candidates-nears-as-haitis-electoral-body-reviews-the-applications-of-34-presidential-hopefuls-much-remains-unanswered-added-commetnary-by-haitian-truth/

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Poor Haiti.

[Billy Burnett]

3. I can't believe that Gerard Jean Juste is gone.

:cry: