Wouldn't surprise me in the least to see some of those very same critics now holding him up as a brilliant visionary.
Well I think even in that case it wasnt appropriate to be ripping on him fo running for president of Haiti. It wasnt remotely the same as, say, socialist entertainers like Sean Penn, Barbara Streisand, Matt Damon and others who actively tried to lecture and overwhelm Americans with their uneducated viewpoints. This was someone merely trying to improve the nation he was born in like anyone might feel obliged to do. And on top of that, Jean probably could have done a far better job than the crooks who have made Haiti the most impovershed nation in the West Hemisphere and more violent than most African or South American nations. And he has protested against things he felt were wrong (Cinncinati boycott) but he has never tried to lecture fans on how his way of doing things was the right way. Nor has he bad mouthed Americans within the confines of another country a la Dixie Chicks. So it was never the same.