President Obama versus the world on jobs

For a president elected on a promise of showing a kinder American face to the world, Barack Obama doesn’t seem to mind throwing a few elbows at allies and rivals alike when it comes to the economy. Included in Obama’s recent repertoire of rallying cries and campaign pitches is a refrain that goes like this: “Right now, countries like China and India and South Korea and Germany, they are fighting as hard as they can for the jobs of the future. They are trying to out-compete us.”

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