Why is my camera stuck In the torso of my character? I began trying to position the camera by going into camera view.  The camera view was in the torso of my character for some reason. 

I had a camera in the scene, but as far as I know the camera is not a child of the rig.  I also tried removing the camera and adding it again but that still didn't help.
There is no camera object in your scene, and the cube object is set as the scene camera (yes, you can have non-camera objects set as the camera):



Add a real camera object by pressing &#8679; ShiftA> Camera in object mode, then make it the active scene camera by setting it in Properties editor > Scene > Scene > Camera, or by pressing &#9096; CtrlNumpad 0 with it selected:



This way you can move the camera object around as you like, and set camera options such as focal length, DoF, lens type, etc.