Hillary book signing freep Austin, Texas 12/5/03

12/5/03 | The Bat Lady

[The Bat Lady]

The book signing was scheduled for 10am. We planned to meet at 9:30. I was the 1st there and the line was in the front, around the side of the entire block and around the back.

[sweetliberty]

I got an ugly FReepmail last night from a nasty little troll who apparently FReepmailed several posters. He was a repeat offender. This one wrote like him. Hopefully they'll nail him by IP and get rid of him for good.

[DrewsDad]

Hillary FReep After-Action Report is HERE.

Here is this morning's Austin [un]American [mis]Statesman:

By Ken Herman and Pamela LeBlanc

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Saturday, December 6, 2003

America has been duped by a president whose bait-and-switch campaign masked a right-wing agenda in the moderate moniker of compassionate conservatism, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said Friday in making a case for why President Bush should be ousted.

Clinton, in an interview prior to a book-signing session at Book People, said Bush misled voters to get her husband's old job.

"We've made a hard right turn to pursue an extremist agenda that was certainly not advertised by the campaign President Bush ran," she said.

"There's very little compassion," Clinton added. "There's even very little conservatism because a true conservative would not have put us into a half-trillion-dollar current account deficit."

Bush, she said, "has not only been radical and extreme in terms of Democratic presidents but in terms of Republican presidents, one his own father."

Matthew Dowd, chief strategist for the Bush re-election effort, rejected the notion of a president who did something other than what was promised.

"He campaigned for tax cuts. He did what he said. He campaigned for education reform. He did it," Dowd said. "He campaigned for Medicare reform, and he did that. He campaigned to improve the morale of the military. He did that.

"I think Hillary and other Democrats are just not familiar with politicians who follow through on campaign promises," Dowd said.

At Book People, Clinton found an early arriving crowd eager for an autographed copy of her "Living History." The line for the 10 a.m. signing, stretching nearly around the block, began forming at 6:15 a.m.

At a large table, the former first lady signed books and chatted with people, who got to spend about five seconds apiece with her.

Simon & Schuster paid Clinton $8 million for the book, a memoir of her years in the White House that was released in June and topped best-seller lists for most of the summer. More than 1.4 million copies have been printed in the United States.

"I hope she can be elected president," said Jun Zhuge. "Bill did a wonderful job, and Hillary can do the same thing."

Not everyone showed up to show support. Protesters carried signs saying "Hillary Rodham Marx" and "Hillary is a Liar."

"I'm still angry about the lies the Clintons got away with," Don Zimmerman said. "If any stiff on the street did what Bill did, they'd be in jail."

Hillary Clinton's hard-edged rhetoric about Bush came as she denied interest in making an 11th-hour entry into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination race.

It's a notion that was on the minds of some Clinton friends at a Thursday evening fund-raising reception at the home of Austin advertising executive Roy Spence, according to a source who was at the private event, which collected about $100,000 for Clinton's Senate campaign war chest.

"It is flattering for people to be encouraging," Clinton said, "but I think we are going to have a nominee by March who will run a very competitive race against the president."

Clinton has not endorsed a presidential candidate, but many people who were active in Bill Clinton's campaigns are siding with fellow Arkansan Wesley Clark. On Friday, Clark picked Bill Buck, who worked in the Clinton campaigns and administration, as his national press secretary.

Although still awaiting the messenger, Hillary Clinton said the Democrats have plenty of message to run on against Bush.

That message, according to Clinton, will be that Bush "is making America less fair, free, strong, smart than it deserves to be in a dangerous world and that we have to change directions before irreparable harm is done."

"I don't know if it surprised all of you down here," Clinton said of Bush's policies, "but it surprised me."

"It became clear they wanted to undo everything the Clinton administration had done, and I took that kind of personally," she said, adding: "Just on every front it became clear to me they wanted to undo the New Deal. It wasn't just the Clinton administration."

Hillary Clinton, who recently visited Afghanistan and Iraq, said it is distressing to watch Bush's "inability to lead friends and allies effectively in the war against terrorism."

"We had enough troops to win the battle militarily on the ground, but not to dominate the country after we succeeded," she said. "And for the life of me, I don't understand why we didn't have that plan in place, because it was clear we were going to be successful on the battlefield."

kherman@statesman.com; 445-1718

[Gracey]

Thanks Bat Lady and DDad for the great writeups and pictures. We got far more coverage than I would have expected.

Apologize that I wasn't home yesterday to contribute to the after Freep comments. I'm leaving again but wanted to thank you guys.

I wish my shirt with the "VISUALIZE NO LIBERALS" had shown up better but maybe next time.

[sausageseller]

"I think Hillary and other Democrats are just not familiar with politicians who follow through on campaign promises," Dowd said

SS. Mr. Dowd is a new hero of mine!

[RonDog]

See also the report from THESE bozos, at www.kxan.com:

Updated 12/05/03 - 8:45 pm Video Available
Hillary Clinton Makes Book Signing Stop

Blustery weather and long snaking lines couldn't keep thousands of Austinites from camping out for Hillary clinton's visit to Austin on Friday.

"We're getting a head start," Austinite Zita Wright said.

They woke before dawn and crowded the streets all around BookPeople for a look at and a book from Hillary Clinton.

While politics drew a lot of this crowd, one little Austinite and her mom got up before dawn for more personal reasons.

"It's pretty hard to get a kid up and in line to come for the book signing but she's pretty excited about it," mother April Angele said.

After all this little six-year-old has something in common with author, First Lady and Senator Clinton.

"Because I got named after her," Hillary Angele said.

"So I really hoped she'd have the chance to meet the person that inspired us to name her and it's a little sooner than I expected," April said.

Now little Hillary has her own copy of "Living History" her mom hopes she'll be inspired to go out and make some history of her own.

"I don't know if she'll be in politics or not it's up to her, but whatever she does I hopes she sees she can be anything she wants to be just like Hillary Clinton," April said.

A couple protestors did show up at the signing Friday but weren't there for long. Senator Clinton headed back to New York shortly after her signing Friday.

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Here is the story:
• Hillary Clinton

So "Blustery weather and long snaking lines couldn't keep thousands of Austinites from camping out for Hillary clinton's visit to Austin on Friday" to meet the Hidabeast,,,

...but only a "couple protestors did show up at the signing Friday but weren't there for long."

I see.

That sounds "fair and balanced" to ME. :o)

[RonDog]

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I recommend that you FReep 'em really good NOW, so that you get better coverage the NEXT time.

[RonDog]

So "Blustery weather and long snaking lines couldn't keep thousands of Austinites from camping out for Hillary clinton's visit to Austin on Friday" to meet the Hidabeast,,,

LOL!

Note that I misspelled "Hildabeast" in my earlier reply...

...but that uncapitalized "C" in "Hillary clinton" was in the ORIGINAL report.

[RonDog]

See also, from www.miami.com:

Posted on Thu, Dec. 04, 2003

Hillary Clinton coming to Books & Books
By MARGARIA FICHTNER
mfichtner@herald.com

Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose acutely anticipated political and personal memoir Living History vaulted to the top of The New York Times bestseller list following its release in June, will be in South Florida to sign copies of the book on Dec. 16.

The senator from New York and former first lady is scheduled to appear at 4 p.m. at Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables.

Starting Friday, vouchers for copies of the $28 book will be available there and at Books & Books' sister store at 933 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach. Each voucher will entitle the purchaser to one copy, which may be claimed at the time of Clinton's appearance. She will sign only books that have been purchased via the vouchers.

Living History, which perched at the top of the Times' bestseller list for five weeks and has sold millions of copies for Simon & Schuster, also helped pique interest in subsequent political memoirs by other well-connected female writers, including Madeleine Albright's Madam Secretary and Barbara Bush's Reflections: Life at the White House.

For more information on Clinton's appearance, call 305-442-4408.

Would SOMEONE please start a thread about this?

I will be busy the rest of today - honoring a very good FRiend of this forum.

[BillF]

Thanks Ron. Thread started, see below. I'll ping all Florida FReepers.

We need better advance notice, but she is keeping many of these secret 'til a few weeks before. How did you find out about this one?

I find out about another Florida Hillary booksigning scheduled the same day by looking on this web site (click here). However, it doesn't list the one that you referenced.

I'll start another thread about the other booksigning in the next few hours.

Hillary Clinton coming to Books & Books [FReep Hillary, South Florida]
Miami Herald ^ | December 4, 2003 | MARGARIA FICHTNER

Posted on 12/06/2003 1:49:00 PM PST by BillF

[RonDog]

THANK YOU, BillF, for posting BOTH "FReep Hillary in Florida" threads!

FReep Hillary in Wellington, FL Dec 16 [my title]
			Posted by BillF On News/Activism 12/06/2003 3:19:32 PM PST with 6 comments CELEBRITY BOOK SIGNINGS & EVENTS ^ | on or before December 6, 2003 | unknown
Hillary Clinton coming to Books & Books [FReep Hillary, South Florida]
			Posted by BillF On News/Activism 12/06/2003 1:49:00 PM PST with 15 comments Miami Herald ^ | December 4, 2003 | MARGARIA FICHTNER

[potlatch]

Hey, thanks much for the ping!!

[BillF]

You're welcome.

How did you happen upon the info about Hillary's south Florida?

I'm trying to figure out how to make sure none of Hillary book signings occur without us notifying FReepers in the locality.

BTW, in addition to the kudos that I posted to you and the other CA FReepers who FReeped the Hate Bush Bash, I wanted to express my admiration for your thread cross-referencing and obvious html skill. You do a great job on all your posts!

[potlatch]

As I walked up to the 1st parking space, that car left and I stood in the spot to save it for Drewsdad.

LOL, you're lucky Shephard [sp?]Smith from Fox News wasn't there!

[Doctor Raoul]

Yes it was....

[Doctor Raoul]

That set him off enough to stop back by later in his Jeep blocking traffic just to talk to us.

That's typical. Two DUmmies at the Sid Blumethal Freep did just that, inconsiderately blocking traffic so they could spew their hate. It was a heap of a van too. Probably cosy less than 20% of the store bought chest she was sporting.

[Doctor Raoul]

What have been the recent signings since Charlotte?

[RonDog]

How did you happen upon the info about Hillary's south Florida?

I spend a lot of time on Google, and in paticular, the relatively NEW feature that they now have, Google NEWS.

I was actually searching the older news stories for any ADVANCE public information (pre-12/2) that she was going to be in Los Angeles at the exact same time as the "Hate Bush" event.

It certainly surprised the heck out of ME to find out that she was actually here, but in "hiding."

I just stumbled across the Florida book signing event - almost by accident. :o)

[RonDog]

What have been the recent signings since Charlotte?

Not sure.

There appears to have been one in Des Moines, when she went out to crash the Nine Dwarfs' debate...

From a Google NEW search for "hillary clinton" book signing:

-- snio --

Candidates and Clinton in Des Moines
WOI, IA - Nov 16, 2003
... For many, the highlight of the night was Senator Hillary Clinton. ... Clinton rounded
out the weekend in West Des Moines with a book signing at Borders.

-- snip --

Update: Hillary Clinton
Des Moines Register, IA - Nov 13, 2003
... John Kerry and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich. BOOK SIGNING: Clinton will sign
copies of her book "Living History" at Borders Books, 4100 University Ave. ...

[firebrand]

Thanks for the ping, RonDog.

Great freep, you Texas guys! Thanks for standing tall.

[firebrand]

Can anybody plan an out-of-state event for downstate NY women voters on election day 2006 that they will not be able to resist? A makeup sale or something? They are the ones who elected her.