Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Beginning the New Year with a bang!
With Romney in lead, Republicans blitz Iowa DES MOINES(AFP) - Republican hopefuls blitzed Iowa yesterday on the eve of the first contest in the 2012 White House race, with frontrunner Mitt Romney ripping President Barack Obama's handling of the US economy and world affairs. "This president has failed the American economy, and the American people," the former Massachusetts governor and millionaire venture capitalist told cheering supporters in Dubuque, Iowa. He blasted Obama for negotiating "zero" new trade deals since taking office and vowed to "crack down" on China over policies seen by many US voters as unfair competition that hurts the jobshungry US economy.
Romney, 64, has taken a thin lead in polls ahead of today's Iowa caucuses over veteran Representative Ron Paul, while former senator and ardent social conservative Rick Santorum has surged to third place. "This is what the vote is about tomorrow: Are we sick and tired of the expansion of government?" Paul told a rowdy crowd packed into a hotel ballroom in Iowa's capital Des Moines, slamming his rivals as agents of the "status quo." About 120,000 Iowans will gather today in hundreds of precincts across the state, meeting in school cafeterias, church buildings and other spots to vote after hearing speeches from their neighbors on behalf of the candidates.
An ages old tradition on Aruba, as with the Chinese New Year, is chasing away the bad vibes with the stupendous noise of firecrackers, while allowing the smoke produced to waft through every corner of your home and business to get rid of the fuku, (seriously, no pun intended) PRONOUNCED FOO-KOO! Continued on page 5
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