Reply #34: Scanners are widespread. He was at, I believe, JC Penney, buying socks, when a scanner bemused him.

[No Elephants]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think America mmay have understood a married man of his generation, insulated in Blair House for 8 years, not knowing about scanners if scanners at that time had been only in aupermarkets.

However, he clearly had not done any of his own shopping, outside maybe boutiques, in quite some time, nor was he aware of it.

Luckily, for us, that probably cost him votes. Today's media would probably explain it away and, to boot, shame us for "class warfare" and for resenting America's allegedly job-creating class for having the very wealth that allows them to create all those jobs.