http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2006 by the authors Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:57:37 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/08/25/131105.php#comment-15839 Former president Bush did indeed know and was familiar with supermarket scanners. The Clinton campaign spin in '92, of course, was that he was so out of touch that he didn't know what a scanner was. Fact is, the one that he was so amazed about was a new model that was being demonstrated and not the run of the mill scanner that he (and we) had not seen at that time. 15839@blogcritics.org Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:57:37 EDT