John McCain Tries Grocery Shopping

In an "unscheduled" photo-op campaign moment last Wednesday, John McCain strode the aisles of a Pennsylvania food store - walking the walk of America's everyman. Or perhaps stumbling would be a better word.

In-between lamenting the $4 a gallon price of milk and making small talk with Republican party planted Renee Gould, a young mother who just wants to feed her family (that's actually legit), McCain read nervously from a notecard, a cameraman knocked over a lot of jars of applesauce, and the loudspeaker calling a store staff member blared through his time with reporters.

Doesn't this remind you of when, in 1992, George Bush senior went to a supermarket and "was amazed by the technology" - aka a scanner for products at checkout. The New York Times reported, "Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, assured reporters that he had seen the President in a grocery store. A year or so ago. In Kennebunkport.

Some grocery stores began using electornic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade."

And then in April 2007, when Giuliani was on the campaign trail in Alabama he told reporters, "A gallon of milk is probably about a $1.50, a loaf of bread about a $1.25, $1.30." Right. Good thing our policy makers are really clued in here.
Leah

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