Critics scream about cost despite widely discredited report
(NEWSER) - Faced with a barrage of outrage—based on a discredited report—over the cost of his 10-day trip to India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan, Barack Obama has rebranded it as a jobs mission. “The primary purpose is to take a bunch of US companies and open up markets so that we can sell in Asia … and create jobs here,” Obama told his Cabinet yesterday, reports the New York Times. He repeated that message today, while lauding an encouraging new jobs report . More»