Romney blasts 'bump in road' remark

Mitt Romney led a chorus of Republican criticism of Barack Obama’s foreign policy, accusing the president of reducing the killing of the US ambassador to Libya as a mere “bump in the road” rather than part of a chain of events that threatened American interests.

White House press secretary Jay Carney called the accusations “desperate and offensive” and an attempt by the Republican presidential candidate and his allies to gain political advantage in the latter stages of a close race that seems to be trending the president’s way.