Conor Friedersdorf lights into Obama for his recent attacks on Romney’s outsourcing:
If Obama simply disagreed that would be one thing; instead Obama pretends to think Romney is malign for his indirect complicity in outsourcing years ago, even as he praises and elevates various business elites who are directly responsible for massive outsourcing right now.
Along the same lines, Yglesias defends outsourcing:
Over the long run, we’re all going to be more prosperous if we live in a world where firms are allowed to locate work where it’s most efficient to locate it. This is exactly why, despite some tough ads, the Obama administration has not proposed any policies to restrict firms’ freedom to shift work across state or national boundaries.
Drezner calls Obama's recent ad-barrage both "powerful" and "ridiculously offensive":
[Obama's ad] baldly asserts that doing business with Mexico, China or Switzerland is un-American. Other idiocies like the Olympic-uniform controversy feed into the public perception that having the other countries make stuff is an abomination of the first degree. … [A]s someone who thinks offshore outsourcing is an unobjectionable practice, this is going to be a nauseating campaign.
The Dish 