Good God! Barack Obama is Chauncey Gardiner!

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,” a book that became a movie starring Peter Sellers. 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 and is totally unknown, is not, despite Parker’s desire to enlist him in her story, a Chauncey Gardiner model.

Parker:

“Being There” is the tall tale of a gardener who becomes a favorite to run for U.S. president following an unlikely series of misunderstandings.

The first occurs when Chauncey is turned out of the mansion where he has lived (and gardened) his whole life upon his benefactor’s death. When someone asks his name, “Chance the Gardener” is heard as “Chauncey Gardiner.” Thereafter, everyone Gardiner meets projects his or her own needs and expectations onto this kind but empty-headed “nobody.” In their minds, Gardiner is the wealthy aristocrat they need him to be, his mundane gardening observations sublime metaphors filled with timeless wit and wisdom.

If you have heard or read about Alvin Green, you know he really is an “empty headed nobody.” But no one believes otherwise. No one thinks of him as an aristocrat. No one interprets his words as wisdom.  The big mystery about Green, who lives with his father, is how he managed to get the money to file his candidacy.

But a light bulb went in my head as Parker brought my memory back that movie. Something I wrote nearly two years ago that was spot on: The Accidental Candidate.  Who is it that so many people projected their needs and expectations onto? Who said vapid and meaningless things that people chose to interpret as wise and profound? Who was said to speak in “sublime metaphors” that people interpreted as timeless wit and wisdom? Who said the words that made so many people believe that “HopeN’Change” was a program for a better, more prosperous America? Who told us that with his election the oceans would recede and the planet would heal? Who is revealed as “empty-headed”and totally clueless when it comes to meeting the country’s problems?

Good God! Chauncey Gardiner has been elected President!