Sean Penn questions Wyclef's bid to run Haiti

[JI7]

<"He has been virtually silent for those of us in Haiti, he has been a non-presence," said Penn, who has been running a 55,000-person tent camp through the J/P Haitian Relief Organization he co-founded.

While acknowledging Jean was an "important voice," Penn also accused the hip-hop artist of misusing more than 400,000 dollars donated to his charity.

"His voice has really been most loudly that which allegedly has taken over 400,000 dollars designated for Haitian relief for himself and claims he didn't do it," Penn said. "That has to be looked into."

"I've been there. I know what 400,000 dollars could do for these people's lives and for a 24-year-old girl right now who is dying.

"So, I want to see someone who is really, really willing to sacrifice for their country and not just someone who I personally saw with a vulgar entourage of vehicles that demonstrated a wealth in Haiti that -- in context, I felt a very obscene demonstration.">

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[1badjedi]

1. He has a point.

It's up to wyclef to come clean.

[EFerrari]

2. Sean Penn has been operating the most successful camp in Haiti.

I trust his opinion.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Cat fight!

Oh.

Two self-important celebrities in a hissy match over who loves the poor people more? Both of them knocking over orphans to get their mugs in front of the coveted "Live with Wolf Blitzer" camera lights?

I'm shocked.

[David__77]

4. A Haitian who has not left their homeland would be best in principle.

Something seems distasteful about someone swooping in from the developed countries to run for the highest office of a sovereign republic.