Month: September 2011

Washington, 7 sep (EFE).-the attacks on health reform and pledges to create jobs and improve border security dominated the debate among the eight candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in the United States today.UU., which was almost a face to face with Rick Perry Mitt Romney.

Perry, Governor of Texas, and Romney, exgobernador of Massachusetts, they are the best placed in the polls and that reflected today, since both dealt with you to you and monopolized the debate organized by the chain of NBC television and the daily political in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

The Governor of Texas, who insisted one of his speeches in his defense of the death penalty, existing in their State, was the most anticipated since it was his first debate after formally announcing his candidacy makes less than a month.

Only a day before the President Barack Obama present to Congress his expected plan to reduce the high unemployment rate, which is located at 9.1%, Perry stressed that he has created “a million jobs” in his State while the country “has lost two million”.

Perry had put in doubt his participation in the debate by the forest fires which is suffering from Texas, the worst in decades and who have already left four dead, but eventually attended.

Romney, which on Wednesday presented at a rally in Las Vegas your own employment plan based on lower taxes, produce more energy and apply sanctions on China for its “unfair” trade practices, argued that EE.UU. It is experiencing “a crisis of confidence” and “leadership”.

For the former Governor of Massachusetts, the problem is Obama, something what agreed other candidates: businessman Herman Cain, the exsenador of Pennsylvania Rick Santorum, the legislature of Texas Ron Paul, the former Governor of Utah Jon Huntsman, the former President of the House of representatives Newt Gingrich and the Congressman by Minnesota Michelle Bachmann.

Bachmann Spain mentioned in the debate, arguing that Obama wants to be like that country in the creation of jobs in the sector of renewable energies, and warned that precisely Spain “has one of the highest levels of unemployment,” currently.

On immigration passed this time candidates almost on tiptoe, but referred more broadly to border security, with proposals such as the Romney of having more agents on the border with Mexico.

Perry, whose state is bordered by Mexico, Obama of “lying” when he asserts that the border is now more secure than has ever been accused, and raised more agents and surveillance by land and air.

Meanwhile, Bachmann recalled that the issue is complex because it is currently grappling with the Mexico, from “narcoterrorism” and entrepreneur Cain also advocated increased security on the border, as well as for using technology to curb immigration illegal.

The controversial health care reform enacted by Obama in 2010 and makes obligatory the health insurance for all persons was another of the issues most widely discussed with coincidence of views on the need to take her back.

The most controversial point of this reform is the so-called “universal mandate” requiring that all people have some type of health insurance or pay a fine if they do not possess.

Bachmann and Romney said that, if they reach the White House, its priority will be to revoke this reform.

When there are very few days for the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 (9), this matter also sneaks in the thoughts of some of the contenders, with critics such as the underhand of Perry to send American troops abroad “without a clear reason”.

Ten years after the 9-11 “we have lost our confidence as a country and our innocence has been destroyed,” reflected the former Governor Huntsman.

Republican candidate that will be measured to Obama will be announced on August 27, 2012 at the Convention of Tampa Bay, Florida, once closed the long process of the primary.

Is still the question of whether will also compete Sarah Palin, Idol of the right-wing Tea Party movement, exgobernadora of Alaska and candidate for the Vice-Presidency in the 2008 election.

From left to right, the presidential candidates of the Republican party, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Herman Cain and Jon Huntsman, Jr. participating in the debate among aspirants to the White House, in Simi Valley, California (United States)(UU.). EFE