[stephenjohnbanker]

I wonder if THIS shrub knows what a supermarket scanner is ?

[Lakeshark]

They probably coached him on it, just in case.....

Sorry Jebbie, no one wants another Bush, particularly you. You're going to be ignored in every state, not just Iowa.

[C19fan]

Does his wife even know? I bet Columba (sp?) has the hired help do the food shopping. If you are an up and coming Mexican having the staff do the shopping is a sign of status.

[TADSLOS]

I wonder if THIS shrub knows what a supermarket scanner is ?

[donna]

Freepers doing the work of the New York Times:

The Great George Bush Sr. “Grocery Scanner” Urban Legend Lives On

Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn't even been present at the grocers’ convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a “look of wonder” on his face and didn't find the event significant enough to mention in his own story.Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn't being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.

Yet the Times continues repeating the bogus Bush story(which, as stated by Snopes, originated in a February 1992 Times story) as fact. The last instance before Friday was reporter Mark Leibovich in an August 2008 story mocking John McCain.

http://www.mrc.org/articles/great-george-bush-sr-grocery-scanner-urban-legend-lives