"i don't think he's a politician at all," said etienne st. cyr, a pastor who helps at a camp for homeless earthquake survivors at the petionville country club. "maybe he's not what we need right now." earlier this week,Diego Rivera Oil Painting On Canvas Portrait of Ramon Gomez de la Serna 1915, jean said he had received death threats from somebody who called and told him to get out of haiti. "the best leader is not necessarily someone who has big diplomas. it is someone who has a heart and who understands the situation of the people and wyclef shows he understands the miserable situation of the haitian people,Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Oil Painting On Canvas Pinched With Four Aces," he added.he also faced persistent criticism over alleged financial mismanagement at the charity he founded, yele haiti. he stepped down from the charity at the beginning of his campaign. "there are a lot of politicians who say they have a lot of experience, big diplomas, but i don't see what they have done for this country. we are still the poorest country in the region," said 19-year-old ashley simon.some haitians questioned the seriousness of the aspiring candidate, who left the desperately poor caribbean nation as a boy. st. cyr said jean failed to win over the people camped in squalid tents on the slope of a golf course, noting they already have allegiances to established political parties and the singer had not visited the camp. yet jean had no political organization and only a vague platform, casting himself as an advocate of haiti's struggling youth and saying he would ask reconstruction donors to help the country's dysfunctional education system. some young haitians said they would not vote in the november elections if jean was not a candidate.