I got nuttin’. Fortunately, Ron does have sumpin’ to say.

This afternoon, for the umpty-lebentieth time, I heard a commentator make the observation that nobody respects the US any more. The topic happened to be Putin’s Hitleresque incursion into Ukraine, but it could have centered on Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, Egypt, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, or any of a dozen other countries or situations in the world today.

The discussion went on to say that we are being dragged down to the common level of anti-Americanism, Christophobia, international jihad, corruption, and mediocrity. Boy, did those guys ever get all their shots in the 10-ring, especially that bit about mediocrity, which is really the tie-wrap that bunched it all together.

This somewhat unique nation was forged in a wilderness crucible where the ultimate goal was survival. And it produced the most free, successful, productive, and powerful country the world has ever seen . . . the richest, most open, most charitable, and most dependable society in history.

Today, however, the “leaders” we have elected and to whom we have temporarily given power have determined that our goal should be apologetic mediocrity. No longer do we strive for dominance in economics, or excellence in science, or confidence in defense; instead we settle for ever-increasing and insurmountable debt, hitchhike rides to the space station on Russian Rockets, and do-not-cross lines drawn with red licorice which petty dictators eat for dessert.

Now . . . certain human endeavors, such as literature or music or sports, simply have no place for mediocrity. Nobody reads mediocre poetry or listens to mediocre bands

I beg to disagree on this. How else do you explain rap “music”?

or watches mediocre athletes when the good stuff is available just by changing channels. And some human activities, among them tight-rope walkers, nuclear physicists, astronauts, and presidents, are downright dangerous when inexperienced amateurs and unqualified rookies attempt them. Great nations cannot survive when they accept mediocrity as the best that their legislators, judges, and executives can produce.

And we have Obungler, Horrible Harry Greed, exSpeaker Blinky, McRINO, and the Congressional Black Caucus. There’s a big ol’ bunch of mediocrity right there. Add to that John Boner and Little Lindsey Graham.

In fairness to our CEO, I must admit that most of the time he’s operating at his best. The problem is that his best is on the low side of mediocre in terms of policy, management, and decision-making. He has gone to great effort to convert the wine of American greatness into the wastewater of mediocrity.

History clearly demonstrates that when small-minded mediocre men attempt greatness for the wrong reasons, they usually wind up producing nothing more than waste, ambivalence, and a general sense of failure, which results lowered “new norms” of averageness, loss, and malaise.

History further shows us that socialism is essentially exploitation of the strong few by the overwhelming numbers of the weak armed with ignorance, indolence, and a sense of entitlement. Its goal basically is to elevate mediocrity to ascendancy in human affairs. Soetoro’s approach has been to celebrate mediocrity while eliminating the opposite extremes by denying the existence of evil and ignoring excellence in individual achievement.

What he and Soros and the rest of his cohorts most enjoy is sitting comfortably in a loge enjoying slurpies and watching the rest of us wallow in a communal mudbath with the hairy and slippery walking brain-dead of the communist and Islamist worlds. Islam is, of course, a cesspool of mediocrity where narrow-minded men with carbon-copy minds rule in a hell of their own making. And communism is, of course, the nightmare of a corrupted sense of equal sharing for all. As Frank Zappa so wisely said, communism can never work for long because most people want to own their own stuff.

In Soetoro’s Republic of Apologetic Mediocrity (ROAM), independent thought and productive capitalism are treason. The progressive vision is a prizes-for-all culture where sports teams are vilified for winning too often and everybody is class valedictorian, whether or not he passes his final exam.

The battle flags for mass mediocrity in ROAM are Welfare, Food Stamps, and Unemployment. Its war cry is “Diversity!” and its hero is Racism. And the foreign policy is to draw a red line, erase it, give a speech, compromise, rationalize, downsize, and then apologize.

Empty jars tend to produce the loudest sounds when struck, and the most ignorant minds often have the largest appetites for power and fame. Some men are born to mediocrity, some achieve mediocrity, and some have mediocrity thrust upon them. When you examine the popularity of rap “music,” professional “wrestling,” and how much a presidential candidate has to spend in our society to get the ethnic and apologetic vote, you quickly see just how wildly successful Baracco Bomber has been in his quest for pure mediocrity.

Sorry, Jimmah. We know you tried, but records are made to be broken, and you are just boilerplate commonplace who got outmediocred by a master failurist who is magnificently exceptional in his unexceptionalism.