US President Barack Obama and his deputy Joe Biden have gone ballistic against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, accusing him of being a "pioneer" in creating jobs in India and China by outsourcing American jobs.
"There was an article the other day in The Washington Post about how Romney's former firm - you know, this is what gave him all this amazing success - was a pioneer in offshoring jobs to China and India," Obama said at an election rally in Atlanta, Georgia.
The city, incidentally is the headquarters of the soft-drink giant Coca Cola, which a day earlier has announced massive investment in India.
"When they were asked about it, some of his advisers explained...There's a difference between offshoring and outsourcing. I'm not kidding. That's what they said. Those workers who lost their jobs, they didn't understand the difference," Obama said.
Vice President Biden alleged yesterday that Massachusetts Governor Romney signed a $160,000 a month contract that paid people abroad to help poor people in Massachusetts get food stamps.
"So give Mitt Romney credit: He is a job creator. In Singapore. And China. And India," Biden said during an election campaign remarks in Waterloo, Iowa.
"And when the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill saying you couldn't outsource state contracts overseas...He vetoed it," he said.
Meanwhile, Romney too launched counter attack by alleging that the Obama administration has failed to create jobs in the country.
