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VIDEOShe thought the job of Veep would merely be a case of her "Being There." Unfortunately Kamala Harris has to speak in public which has revealed that there is no there there. As a result you can see her channeling Chauncey Gardiner whenever she spews meaningless word salads.

JOE Biden sparked social media fury today when he referred to Satchel Paige as "the great negro" during a bizarre Veterans Day speech. The president blundered over his words while talking about the baseball icon's time playing in the Negro League. "I’ve adopted the attitude of the great negro at the time, pitcher in the Negro leagues, went on to become a great pitcher in the pros, in the MLB after Jackie Robison, his name was Satchel Paige," Biden said.

VIDEOAs has been happening with increasing frequency, Joe Biden is channeling his inner Chauncey Gardner. More and more it appears he is just "Being There."

Disabled, divorced, with a degree, working several jobs yet making less than $10,000 a year. Struggling to pay bills. Unable to buy presents for her children. Waiting for her disability to come through. Dependent on her parents. That was the sad story that a woman told Bernie Sanders at an event in Iowa yesterday. On today's Morning Joe, after airing that clip, an obviously moved Mika Brzezinski challenged the panel as to who between Sanders and Hillary Clinton would "be there" for the woman. Mika didn't answer the question herself, though she has been a Bernie booster. View the video...

The president is upset. Very upset. Frustrated and angry. Seething about the government’s handling of Ebola, said the front-page headline in the New York Times last Saturday. There’s only one problem with this pose, so obligingly transcribed for him by the Times. It’s his government. He’s president. Has been for six years. Yet Barack Obama reflexively insists on playing the shocked outsider when something goes wrong within his own administration. Charles Krauthammer writes a weekly political column that runs on Fridays. View Archive RSS The IRS? “It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am...

War On Terror: Reports that Barack Obama received detailed information on the virulent Islamic State terror group in his daily briefings for over a year and did nothing makes him officially our "being there" president. Leading from behind once again, as he flew to Estonia to draw a red line that Russia shouldn't cross after it finishes gobbling up Ukraine, President Obama told reporters, "We will not be intimidated" by the second beheading of an American journalist and warned that we would "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State. Degrade? Degrading has been the foreign policy of a president who recently...

The Weekly Standard reported yesterday that, despite the invasion of Ukraine by Russia as well as Putin calling Obama’s bluff after the ‘stern warning’ given to Russia, Barack Obama failed to attend his National Security Team meeting to discuss the situation between Russia and Ukraine. Instead, he was later ‘briefed’ by Susan Rice. According to Todd Starnes from FOX News, rather than attend the security briefing, Obama instead ‘attended a White House Film Festival where pool reporters said he socialized with second graders.’ Prior to the terrorist attack at Benghazi, Obama demonstrated a pattern of missing his security intelligence meetings....

Rip Van Obama President Obama went into a deep slumber in December. When he woke up this January, he found himself back even in the polls, with neither a press conference nor another overhyped presidential televised address to be heard. Sleep, quiet, and solitude — all that appears wiser than campaigning, visibility, and speaking, both for Obama and Americans. In short, the president has really hit on something: an Obama going into a Rip Van Winkle somnolent state might just mean waking up again as president. If conservatives once alleged that Obama got elected as Being There’s Chauncey Gardiner —...

Is Obama Real? A little over a decade before anyone had heard of Barack Obama, cyberpunk author William Gibson already had his number, as it were. The novel was called Idoru (“idol” in Japanese) and told the story of a holographic emanation, an entirely virtual media star projected upon an adoring world. As Rolling Stone put it in a review, “Gibson envisions a future in which the lines between the virtual and the actual are terminally blurred. How ‘real’ are today’s celebrities?” There’s no doubt that the world’s “greatest” celebrity creation is Barack Obama, an idol who mesmerized the American...

Kathleen Parker is an incurable Liberal suck-up but her latest column Voters elevate the ordinary has an inkling of what happened to the United States. Kathleen, poor thing, has a good thought, but when she takes it out to play, she lets it get away from her. It’s all about “Being There,”... According to Parker, Chauncey Gardiner, the genial but retarded gardener from “Being There” is Alvin Green. And that’s the point at which Parker’s though begins to run off. Alvin Green, the man who won the nomination to be the Democrat Senate candidate from South Carolina, who didn’t campaign...

As I listened to Obama's speech today my mind drifted back to a 1979 movie that I must have seen a half dozen times. I could see in front of me Chauncey Gardener - the main character in the movie "Being There." It wasn't so much what Obama was saying, it was the humor I found in the lack of substance in what he was and has been saying and the media's role in perpetuating a myth. The only difference between Chauncey Gardener and Barack Obama is that Chauncey was a man of simplistic innocence, a passive and simple-minded gardener...

Obama Stumped When Asked About North Korea how embarrassing....rambling, halting non answer......where's that teleprompter when he needs it ( Obama must desparately hate these Q&A sessions.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqMdROiM8wU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhotairpundit%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded

Return to the Article March 08, 2009 Maybe we should schedule some nap time for our president Rick Moran A little more than a month in and our president already needs a vacation. Everyone knows the presidency is a killer job - everyone, that is, except the current occupant of the oval office who is surprised at the amount of work he has to do. The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Barack Obama is amazed at the amount of paper that flows across his desk and that the economic crisis has so sapped his energy, he is not even paying...

Spring is a very special time, here on the Eastern Continental Divide. This was a particularly harsh winter. The first task on this first truly warm and sunny day was to patrol the grounds and see which plants had survived, and which had not. We were worried about the red maple planted just last summer. It and the wisteria made it through with flexible small branches, not small and brittle ones. Both plants were presents from dear friends, and one of those friends did not survive the winter. So it was good to see that her plant survive. Michelle is...

There is no question that Fox News is a mouthpiece for the Republican Party, and that is what makes the cable and broadcast television operations of Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch so noxious. If Fox was an ideologically conservative network, that would be fine. In fact, we think the United States could use more ideological diversity in its broadcast networks. Most of them have replaced civic and democratic values with commercial and entertainment impulses that dumb down the discourse and discourage active citizenship. A network that offered a consistently conservative take on the news would be a lot better than the...

Maureen Dowd is worried that the Republican smear machine is at it again, attacking Barack Obama by using…his middle name. It seems Ed Rogers referred to Obama by his full name on "Hardball" a while back, setting off indignation among some on the left. I don't know why it came to Rogers' mind, but it is true I included Obama's middle name in an NR story (not available on the web) in early November: "Obama has joked that he worried his political career was over after 9/11 because his name sounded too much like Osama. In fact, it's better than...

There's an exhilaration in seeing artists at the very top of their form: It almost doesn't matter what the form is, if they're pushing their limits and going for broke and it's working. We can sense their joy of achievement - and even more so if the project in question is a risky, off-the-wall idea that could just as easily have ended disastrously. Hal Ashby's Being There is a movie that inspires those feelings. It begins with a cockamamie notion, it's basically one joke told for two hours, and it requires Peter Sellers to maintain an excruciatingly narrow tone of...