WH blasts Romney's comment

US: The White House said Tuesday that Barack Obama strove to be president of all Americans, not just those who voted for him, capitalizing on Mitt Romney's dismissal of half of the US electorate.

Obama's spokesman Jay Carney responded to the Republican nominee's comments in a secretly filmed video taken at a fundraiser for rich donors in which he said 47 percent of Americans backed the president because they see themselves as victims.

"When you're president of the United States, you are president of all the people, not just the people who voted for you," Carney said. AFP