While Currents Between Shores respects Wyclef Jean's bid for the Haitian presidency, she also thinks “his passion is naive, his vision is vague and short-sighted and that just because he can run for president of Haiti, doesn't mean that he should.” Mediahacker, meanwhile, says: “Jean likened himself to Barack Obama, a new hope for the earthquake-hit country…[he] more closely resembles Sarah Palin – incoherent, incompetent and in it for himself.”