WASHINGTON DC: The not so nice phase of the US presidential campaign is slowly coming closer. Remarks aimed below the belt have begun. It is quite like that phase in Indian elections when leaders tear up candidate lists or call each other ‘maut ka saudagar’ or make comments about other’s foreign origins.

Over the week-end, President Barack Obama mocked Republican candidate Mitt Romney at a campaign event saying, “We don’t need an outsourcing pioneer in the Oval Office.” Romney was accused by the President of having shipped jobs overseas to “places like China and India” when he had owned and “pioneered” a private company called Bain capital. This impertinent remark by the usually placid Obama won him applauses from the audience but reporters and political analysts were quick to point out the hypocrisy in his speech. Will a second term Obama stop America from outsourcing its jobs?