Old Bush seemed too old and out of touch, especially when he didn’t know what a scanner in a grocery store was for.
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Which you know was media spin. He was being shown a new model, not yet in general use, that could scan broken/scarred bar codes.
Didn’t matter, it was his Dukakis tank moment. Spin, everything is spin. And we have become so ADD as a country that we can’t listen beyond 10 seconds or watch beyond 22.