Mitt Romney’s campaign blasted President Obama as a hypocrite Monday for calling for more funding for teachers, police officers and firefighters, after having acknowledged that the government has shed jobs on his watch. Obama, Romney charged, is urging public-sector hiring one minute, and bragging about reducing government the next. But Romney’s attack relies on a cherry-picked remark Obama made while arguing Congress should help hire more public workers.
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