ANDREW SULLIVAN, POSEUR

This is just a little thing, but it lends itself well to post-2AM posting.

Sully writes:

POSEUR ALERT: "One you've never heard of. 'Jaspora' by Wyclef Jean." - Howard Dean, when asked what his favorite song was. Here are the lyrics, from the lead singer/rapper for the Fugees. Is this some sort of Jamaican slang? Can someone translate for me? It could be really interesting. I'm sure Joe Lieberman would love to find out what "Yo pa respekte Izrayèl" might mean.

Three points, in no particular order:

1) FYI, that's Haitian Creole. Jamaica is, well, a completely different country.
2) The singing/rapping duties on the Fugees' one album were distributed fairly equally between Wyclef and Lauryn Hill (Pras too).
3) From the sound of that last sentence, is Sully trying to "Bustamantify" the good governor and doctor? Roger Ailes (extra tasty crispy non-evil version) thinks this is a possibility.

Who's the poseur now?

(Though I'd admit, some of the other candidates' choices for favorite songs border on mindless cliche . . . you listening, Dick "Born in the USA" Gephardt? Though I give Kerry credit for picking a less obvious, yet far superior song from the Boss, "No Surrender")

UPDATE: Here is a translation of "Jaspora".