Bianca?

George W. Bush’s ineptness at the job of President of the United States and in particular his inability to communicate intelligently was on display Thursday in remarks he made about the so-called war on terror and about paying for hurricane relief, and in his answers to the few questions he took from reporters, as shown by the transcript, which I encourage everyone to read in full.

Since his pretexts for invading Iraq have proved to be false, Bush continues to misleadingly play what he considers to be his main trump card - the so-called war on terror. [His born again trump card is being held in reserve until hurricane season is over - this is not a good time to be too strongly aligned with The Man Upstairs].

Bush seems to have been acting a little more goofy than usual lately, which is especially peculiar considering the increasing number of serious problems our country is facing. One aspect of his performance on Thursday that is being discussed on a few blogs is his unsuccessfully seeking out a reporter named Bianca during the question session following his talk. As you can read in the transcript, he was quite interested in finding Bianca so she could ask him a question. Some wonder whether she is another softball thrower like Jeff Gannon. Apparently the reporter is Bianca Davie, a young journalist from the University of Illinois, now employed by Bloomberg.

If you did not take the time to read the transcript linked above, here is a summary of excerpts regarding Bianca: "Bianca?" Bush inquired, looking down at a list of White House press poolers (notably Bloomberg reporter Bianca Davie). "Nobody named Bianca? Well, sorry Bianca's not here. I'll be glad to answer her question." Bush explained: "Just trying to spread around the joy of asking a question." "Are you Bianca?" he asked another young woman. "No, I'm not," the woman answered. "Anita - Fox News." Bush responded with determination: "Okay. I was looking for Bianca. I'm sorry."

According to early reports, Bianca either had headphones on and was not aware Bush was calling for her, or else she heard him, but did not have a question to ask, so did not respond. I don’t think she was a plant, or she would have responded and asked her prepared question, unless she chickened out. I wonder if it might be something more like someone in the Bush staff likes her and wanted to give her an opportunity to be in the spotlight, but she shied away. As I pointed out in a post here last February, Bush uses a seating chart with pre-selected reporters to call on, so either the chart was in error or Bianca sat in the wrong spot.

Google did not find much on Bianca Davie, but it did locate this picture from a Presidential Leadership Seminar, with a Bianca Davie in the middle. She apparently is a quite young reporter and not well known to the White House press corps, or they would have pointed her out to Bush.

As long as I am speculating about Bush’s recent behavior, take a look at this piece from the National Enquirer [hey this gives equal time to the profane, since I used a Christian source for the Bush transcript], indicating all the current stress may have returned George to the bottle.