(UPDATE )Campaigning in Grand Junction, Colorado on Tuesday, Mitt Romney seized on a Washington Post report that said that liberal critics charge President Obama has failed to protect American jobs from being moved overseas, saying he has failed to confront China, rein in unfettered trade nor reworked a U.S. visa program that sends high-tech jobs overseas.
“This president has been outsourcing a good deal of American jobs himself by putting money into energy companies, solar and wind energy companies that end up making their products outside the United States,” Romney said. “If there is an outsourcer in chief, it’s the president of the United States, not the guy who’s running to replace him.”
Romney was quick to point the finger at Obama after the president's re-election team has been painting the picture that Bain Capital, Romney's old private equity firm, had invested in companies that specialized in helping other firms relocate work overseas, another story reported by the Post that Obama first referenced in his appearance at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa last month.
The issue is obviously a sensitive one, and the GOP couldn't wait to seize on the Post story on Tuesday, producing a website called Obamanomics Outsourced: The Truth About How Obama Shipped The Recovery Overseas.
This article appears in Jul 5-11, 2012.