"obama will not use that language instead referring to the deadly attack as a bump in the road on the way to democracy. >> he caught flak for that. you can not call the death of the four people, particularly an ambassador, a bump in, a bump in the road that seemed glib and callus and disrespectful to the lives lost in that. the white house sent mixed signals on thisser to. was it, premeditated attack, c" . . . .