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Trash-mouth Sweet Mickey is the odds on favorite to win the election.

The Guardian seems to be full of manure — but I'm all in favor of the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. civilians and military from Haiti.

Koupe tete, boule kay is the foundation of the state in Haiti.

That’s all anybody needs to know about Haiti. The people of Haiti may win?

Don’t make me laugh.

Weibrot is a typical leftist fool. The US occupation began in 1915 as Haiti slid into a state of general anarchy highlighted by a huge mob storming the presidential palace and tearing President Sam to pieces in retaliation for a massacre of his political opponents. Unfortunately but wisely few Americans or other foreigners availed themselves of the opportunity to purchase property in Haiti. The goal was to attract some sort of foreign capital to the wretched country. The US occupation produced, after several years of fighting, an end to endemic banditry and then a rudimentary public works program concentrating on modernizing the capital, a basic road net, a professionalized military (the Guard d’Haiti), and a basic eduction system for at least town dwellers.

Whatever had been accomplished was destroyed by the sinister Duvalier Pere who systematically destroyed every institution in the country to preclude any effective opposition. Haiti under the Duvalier kleptocracy fell economically from being grouped with some of the less advanced Asian nation to being a global dead last down with the likes of Somalia.

In order to unseat the military clique that followed Baby Doc the US destroyed the nascent private sector of Haiti with a financial embargo from which the country has never recovered.

Aritide, in whom so many hopes were placed, turned out to be bi-polar and in his second aministration a manic performer in the non-stop drama of bargain making, bribery, and favor mongering as the nation plummeted back to Duvalier levels.

The new constitution is another attempt at crafting some sort of civil regime that provides the executive with enough power to govern a chronically fractured polity and the economy some legal basis for market place economics to work.

Mr. Weisbrod would prefer a Chavez style ‘peoples republic’ with lots of mass mobilization, a well armed ‘peoples militia’ and a regime that proves its authenticity by spouting hatred for the US and allaying itself with Cuba or Venezuela or maybe Iran.