The contradictory responses from different parts of the Obama administration regarding the Muslim killing of the ambassador and three others in Libya were interesting.

The president has been implying for months that he had personally killed Osama, thus destroying Al Qaeda and eliminating terrorism from the world. Therefore he couldn’t admit that terrorists had invaded the embassy and murdered Americans since terrorists no longer exist.  

So he stood at the United Nations and apologized to the world for an imagined uprising caused by an unknown American producing a silly video about Mohammed.

Intelligence testified that nothing like that happened; they said it was a terrorist attack.

Hillary Clinton at the State Department mostly kept her powder dry while she wondered which way she jumped would be best for her 2016 campaign for president.

In debate Joe Biden grinning and grinning over the death of four people while he idiotically smiled through almost every topic, stated, contrary to his boss’s assertions about the silly video, that we really didn’t know why the embassy was invaded but, by golly, when we get to the bottom of it (after election day) those criminals will get their comeuppance.

The Obama administration’s conflicting explanations reminded me of the punch line to an old joke: “Nobody was driving, officer; we were all in the back seat singing.”

Is this, “leading from behind”?   

Randy Ridgel lives in Kelseyville, Calif.