Obama Raps Romney on Outsourcing [VIDEO]

President Barack Obama criticized and mocked Mitt Romney's jobs record during a campaign speech to a raucous crowd at Oyster River High School on Monday.

Arriving to chants of “O-BA-MA” and “Four more years,” the president shared his accomplishments and encouraged supporters to continue fighting for what and who they believe in.

He attacked his Republican opponent for the just-released information that Romney's former firm, Bain International, was among “pioneers” of outsourcing American jobs to India and China.

"Yesterday his advisors were asked about this and tried to clear this up by tellings us there's actually a difference between outsourcing and offshoring," Obama said. "You cannot make this stuff up."

“If you're a worker whose job went overseas, you don't need somebody trying to explain to you the difference between outsourcing and offshoring, you need somebody who's going to wake up every single day and fight for American jobs.”

Continuing his attack on Romney's plans, Obama said Romney plans to return tax cuts to the wealthy and pay for them by cutting $5 trillion, including one trillion from areas like education, medical research and green energy.

“They also proposed eliminating health care for about 50 million Americans, and turning Medicare into a voucher program,” Obama said.

But Obama shifted his speech away from Romney and turned it to his accomplishments in the last three years.

“In this country prosperity has never come from the top down... we don't need more top-down economics,” Obama said.

The country needs a better plan for education and training, for infrastructure and innovation, a tax code that encourages companies to create manufacturing jobs in the United States.

“Over the last three years, I cut taxes for the average working family by about $3,600,” Obama said. “I cut taxes for small businesses 18 times. I don't believe every regulation is smart or that every tax dollar is spent wisely. I don't believe we should be in the business of helping people who refuse to help themselves.”

But Obama said he shares the belief of Abraham Lincoln that in government,  “We should do together what we cannot do as well for ourselves. That's how we built this country. Together.”

He spoke of the need for more teachers, for college to be viewed as a necessity, not a luxury, to strengthen Medicare and reform tax codes.

“I am running so that after a decade of war, we can start doing some nation rebuilding right here at home,” Obama said.

It's a decision that is up to the American people, Obama said, and it's time for people to work as one nation.

“I will work for anybody, in any party, who believes we are in this together. That we rise and fall as one nation, as one group,” Obama said.

For those who believe the economy grows gets a fair shot and does their fair share, Obama said, he needs their support.

“I still believe in you. I believe in the American people. And I need you to keep believing in me,” Obama said. "I need you to hit some doors and make some phone calls and register your friends, talk to your neighbors, get on Facebook, and Twitter. Let's get to work. Let's finish what we started.”

Romney's campaign blasted the president on the economy. Romney campaign spokesman Ryan Williams, in a statement, said:

"With the worst record on jobs and the economy of any president in modern history, President Obama knows he has no compelling case to make for a second term. That’s why he continues to use false and discredited attacks to divert attention from his abysmal economic record. President Obama’s plans for post-election tax hikes on entrepreneurs and the disastrous effect of Obamacare on small-business hiring speak louder than any campaign speech. He may want to pretend that he hasn’t been president for the last three-and-a-half years, but he can’t hide from his record. Mitt Romney has a decades-long record of job creation that President Obama simply can’t match, and he will get our economy back on the right track.”

UPDATE,  4 p.m.: President Barack Obama has been whisked out of Durham and Oyster River High School and the crowd has cleared the gym, but the commander in chief left behind an energized bunch ready to press on to the November election.

Obama spoke to a crowd of almost 2,000 people in the gym and an overflow room at the Durham high school on Monday afternoon. He talked about his policies and how he plans to continue what he described as the forward momentum he has started in the country. He also attacked presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney for being a part of a company that spent years outsourcing jobs.

"Yesterday his advisors were asked about this and tried to clear this up by telling us there's actually a difference between outsourcing and offshoring," Obama said. "You cannot make this stuff up."

Obama spoke to the importance of fighting for American jobs, the importance of preserving the advancements that have been made in the last three years and the importance of working together.

"We should do together what we cannot do as well for ourselves," Obama said, quoting President Abraham Lincoln.

Patch will have more from Obama's remarks, as well as video footage from his address early this evening.

Original story: As President Obama returns to swing state New Hampshire today, Democrats turning out for his stop in Durham said the economy and the high court's pending ruling on "Obamacare" may be key to the election.

"I do believe it's going to be an issue," said state Rep. Janet Wall, D-Madbury, one of the Democrats packing the auditorium at Oyster River High School on Monday. "We need to do something for health care."

Republicans also turned out, waving signs in front of the school to protest Obama's policies.

Joe Bowmaster, of Dover, said he was standing outside hoping to get people excited about the election, but not for a re-election. Bowmaster, originally from Missouri, said he has been part of Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich's campaigns previously and is now working with Mitt Romney's people.

"This is my first real opportunity since I stopped working with Newt's campaign to come out with the Romney folks to get people excited about the election," Bowmaster said, holding a sign that said "Real men have tea parties."

Joining Bowmaster was Sylvia Smith, coordinator of the Littleton Tea Party group.

"I didn't want to give the impression that everyone in New Hampshire welcomes the president," Smith said.

Smith said she is working as hard as she can to make sure this is Obama's only term in office.

"He's helping to destroy the free enterprise system, God only know what will happen if he gets four more years," Smith said. "I'm working hard to make sure this is it for him."

Many of the state's prominent Democrats, and grass-roots supporters, are packed inside the Oyster River High School's auditorium, awaiting the president. The list includes candidates for governor, former U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, New Hampshire House Minority Leader Terie Norelli of Portsmouth, and Senate Democratic Leader Sylvia Larsen of Concord.

State Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, spoke to the growing media focus around the U.S. Supreme Court's pending opinion on the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare." A video interview with Campbell is attached here.