Thousands turned out Saturday morning for a a brief but enthusiastic rally for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at Union Terminal.

Romney - along side a host of Ohio GOP leaders, including U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, Sen. Rob Portman, and Ohio Treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel - was critical of President Barack Obama’s efforts to create jobs. He stressed his plan to get Americans back to work.

“We have seen in the last four years a lot of disappointment and a lot of families having hard times,” Romney said. “The jobs we lost were middle-income jobs and the jobs we are getting back are low-income jobs.

“(Obama) was going to heal the planet,” he said. “But we are going to help the American people and help the families of America.

“I will do everything in my power to bring us together, because united, America built the strongest economy in the history of the Earth,” Romney said. “United, we put Neil Armstrong on the moon.”

Romney’s wife, Ann, took the microphone briefly, telling the cheering crowd, “Help is on the way.”

The 4,000 in attendance packed the museum center lobby waving signs and chanting “Mitt, Mitt.” The event was originally scheduled for outside with the historic building as a backdrop, but was moved inside due to the threat of wet weather.

“I’m tired of Obama and his wasteful spending,” said Paulette Waag of Milford. “Mitt’s got all the right ideas and has got what it takes to turn this country around.”

Obama’s camp delivered a swift response Saturday to Romney’s Cincinnati speech.

“Fresh off the heels of his so-called convention reinvention, Mitt Romney continues to tear down President Obama with false and completely debunked rhetoric instead of lifting up the country as he visited the Queen City today,” said Jessica Kershaw, press secretary for Obama for America – Ohio. “Much like his speech in Tampa, what Romney gave Cincinnatians today was nothing more than empty words and no tangible ideas to move the country forward.

“What he failed to share were his actual proposals, which would take our country backward to the failed economic policies of the past: $5 trillion in budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy paid for by the middle class and ends Medicare as we know it, turning it into a voucher program,” she said.

Ohio has been a focus this past week for both presidential campaigns.

Romney’s running mate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, spent Saturday in Columbus attending the football game between Ohio State University and Miami University, the Wisconsin Republican’s alma mater.

Vice President Joe Biden campaigned Friday in Lordstown and Obama is scheduled to be in Toledo on Labor Day, but has cancelled a trip to Cleveland and will leave Ohio on Monday to look at damage from Hurricane Issac in Louisiana.