The world is on fire. But don’t go telling that to Secretary of State John Kerry, spending Labor Day on Nantucket, kiteboarding in his stylish bloomers before a late dinner at the Chanticleer.

Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. Let them eat … whatever they want, as they can pay for it with their EBT cards.

Did you ever think you would live to see the day when the United States would be in grave peril, under attack, and the White House would be treating the crisis as if it were a shortfall of three votes in a farm price-supports bill?

Who could have ever believed that the same government that would be halfheartedly expressing a concern about terrorists sneaking into the country would simultaneously be allowing tens of thousands of foreigners to pour across the Rio Grande unimpeded, unchecked?

That national security agencies would be scrambling desperately to track jets hijacked in Tripoli that might be used next week on the anniversary of 9/11, while another branch of the same government allows illegal aliens unfettered access to commercial airliners, flying them free of charge wherever they desire, sans any form of identification.

This is a democracy, and the people get the government we deserve. Or at least we get the government deserved by that 50 percent of the electorate with Obamaphones and SSDI who voted to re-elect a guy who thinks there are 57 states and that Austrian is the language of Austria.

The rest of us, who pay our own way and who still work for a living, we’re just “bitter clingers.”

If only Barack Obama hated ISIS as much as he hates the Tea Party.

If only he cared as much about forcing the terrorists in Libya to their knees as he does about compelling the Little Sisters of the Poor to violate their religious vows by offering birth control.

If only he would unleash the military on the terrorists with as much determination as he unleashes the IRS on American conservatives.

Four Americans murdered by Wahhabi terrorists in Benghazi and he immediately arrests … an American filmmaker. But that guy was obviously guilty. He was a Christian. He didn’t have a Section 8 apartment.

A Caesar at home, a Chamberlain abroad — a perfect description of Barry Soetoro from someone on the Internet. As ISIS commits genocide, he does speech after speech on the greatest problem confronting the nation — global warming. I kid you not.

Last weekend he goes to Westchester County to address some Beautiful People willing to spend $32,000 to have their picture taken with him, and he tells them without a trace of irony that “the very rich are different from you and me.”

Maybe they are. Perhaps they think they’re bulletproof. Perhaps they don’t quite grasp how long their beloved gay marriage would last under sharia law.

What a mess. Surely it must be George W. Bush’s fault.

See Howie at Marsh’s Wine & Spirits in Norwell on Saturday from 3-5 p.m.