(CNN) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is attempting to flip attacks on his business record by accusing the Obama administration of shipping American jobs overseas, but experts in the industry he's singling out say the truth is more complicated. "It's interesting when it comes to outsourcing, this president has been outsourcing a good deal of American jobs by putting money into energy companies that end up making their products outside the U.S.," Romney told an audience in Colorado on Tuesday. "If there's an outsourcer-in-chief, it's the president of the United States, not the guy running to replace him." It's an attempt at political jujitsu -- or as White House spokesman Jay Carney put it, a jeer of "I know you are but what am I?"
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Romney campaign attacks stimulus funding for overseas energy companies
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But that's where the products were, one observer says
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Wind industry says those programs fueled a boom that created American jobs
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Both Romney and Obama are weak on outsourcing, a liberal economist says
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