Bush Encounters the Supermarket, Amazed By ANDREW ROSENTHAL, Published: February 5, 1992
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 4— As President Bush travels the country in search of re-election, he seems unable to escape a central problem: This career politician, who has lived the cloistered life of a top Washington bureaucrat for decades, is having trouble presenting himself to the electorate as a man in touch with middle-class life.
Today, for instance, he emerged from 11 years in Washington's choicest executive mansions to confront the modern supermarket.
Visiting the exhibition hall of the National Grocers Association convention here, Mr. Bush lingered at the mock-up of a checkout lane. He signed his name on an electronic pad used to detect check forgeries.
"If some guy came in and spelled George Bush differently, could you catch it?" the President asked. "Yes," he was told, and he shook his head in wonder.
Then he grabbed a quart of milk, a light bulb and a bag of candy and ran them over an electronic scanner. The look of wonder flickered across his face again as he saw the item and price registered on the cash register screen.....
Bush Encounters the Supermarket, Amazed By ANDREW ROSENTHAL, Published: February 5, 1992
They made up the story about Bush. Not surprising that Hillary is treated in a different manner.
FR- The difference between how the NY Times treated Clinton vs HW Bush
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscanner.asp
http://www.mrc.org/articles/great-george-bush-sr-grocery-scanner-urban-legend-lives