Long lines greet Hillary at area book signing

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 8/7/03 | MATTHEW CRAFT

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LAKE FOREST PARK -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton swept through a bookstore here yesterday afternoon, signed close to 2,000 copies of her best-selling memoir, "Living History," in two hours and left behind a dazed crowd of admirers and a dozen Hillary haters.

Third Place Books had issued 1,200 passes to customers beforehand. Audrey Nilles, who began planning for the event in May when she learned of Clinton's visit, took the day off work -- along with many others -- and arrived at 8 a.m. with a bundle of books under her arm. The line started moving after 11 a.m., and by 12:45 p.m., she and a couple of friends were walking to the car.

"I said, 'Hello' and 'Thank you very much for everything,' " Nilles said of her encounter with the Democratic senator from New York. "There wasn't much time for anything else. She gave everyone this warm smile. Hopefully, she's our first woman president."

Clinton started the day at the Golden Tennis Shoe Awards, a fund-raiser for Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., at the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle. Kirsten Brost, communications director for Washington State Democrats, said 1,500 people paid between $100 and $150 to attend. An additional 200 who landed on a waiting list watched the award presentation and Clinton's speech on a television in a separate room.

Clinton's next stop: Lake Forest Park Towne Centre. The line started at a table inside the bookstore shielded by police officers, Secret Service agents and stacks of books and wound through metal detectors and out the front doors. It stretched past the Honey Bear Bakery, which was offering commemorative sugar cookies and T-shirts, and curled around Hollywood Video on the corner.

A dozen protesters stood at the intersection, waving signs, screaming at passing cars and heckling those waiting in line. One elderly woman held a sign that read, "Watch for low-flying brooms."

"I sold my soul to Hillary," read another, carried by a man wearing a devil's mask.

Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives at a well-attended book signing yesterday at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park (August 07, 2003). Photo Credit: Paul Joseph Brown/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The bookstore's employees had set up an assembly line for Clinton to greet 1,200 admirers in 120 minutes. Her admirers marveled at how well her signature held up despite the pace.

Walking to her car, Amy Alpine flipped open her copy and admired the distinct script and clear capitals ending in an abridged last name: Hillary R Cl ... .

There was no chance to chat, just enough time for a smile and a thank you.

The exception was Bruce Melin, who wore a button from Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Melin finished "Living History" Tuesday night and discovered that Clinton had made the conversion from Goldwater Republican to Democrat in the 1960s, just as Melin did.

Clinton spotted the button and laughed. "You changed," she said. "I did, too."

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Puke.

Audrey Nilles, who began planning for the event in May...

"I said, 'Hello' and 'Thank you very much for everything,' "

Thank you?
For what?

"There wasn't much time for anything else. She gave everyone this warm smile. Hopefully, she's our first woman president."

God forbid!

Amy Alpine flipped open her copy and admired the distinct script and clear capitals ending in an abridged last name: Hillary R Cl

LOL!
Even der Hildebeast cringes at the thought of her last name.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives at a well-attended book signing
yesterday at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park.
Paul Joseph Brown, P-I

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Someone needs to throw a stink bomb at her.

[ladyinred]

and left behind a dazed crowd of admirers and a dozen Hillary haters.

Picture the media describing a Bush outing like this. Never, it would first mention the protestors, who would never be called Haters, and then as an afterthought, say there were a few far right extremists in line to see him.

[ladyinred]

OMG! There is that horrible Bug eyed pose again.

[RonDog]

"...A dozen protesters stood at the intersection, waving signs, screaming at passing cars and heckling those waiting in line. One elderly woman held a sign that read, "Watch for low-flying brooms."

"I sold my soul to Hillary," read another, carried by a man wearing a devil's mask...

What a GREAT sign and mask!

I wonder where they got THAT idea? :o)

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ping.

[RonDog]

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[Paul Atreides]

and left behind a dazed crowd

Well, Ol' Crusty is pretty pungent.

[Paul Atreides]

Someone needs to throw a stink bomb at her.

There's no stink bomb in existence stronger than Ol' Crusty. And, she wears those 24/7.

[rockfish59]

Third Place!

We can only hope!

Get back to the senate ya' fat ass!!

[Paul Atreides]

If she wasn't such a shrew, some of her people might be able to tell her that the bug eyes and the constant "you know" are NOT helping her.

[RonDog]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton swept through a bookstore here yesterday afternoon, signed close to 2,000 copies of her best-selling memoir, "Living History," in two hours and left behind a dazed crowd of admirers and a dozen Hillary haters...

And they say the the media has a LIBERAL bias!

"Hillary haters" sounds "fair and balanced" to ME.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton swept through a bookstore here yesterday afternoon, signed close to 2,000 copies of her best-selling memoir, "Living History," in two hours and left behind a dazed crowd of admirers and a dozen Hillary haters.

Third Place Books had issued 1,200 passes to customers beforehand. Audrey Nilles, who began planning for the event in May when she learned of Clinton's visit, took the day off work -- along with many others -- and arrived at 8 a.m. with a bundle of books under her arm.

Is it 2000 or 1200??? Probably more like 100.

[Paul Atreides]

LOL!

[Paul Atreides]

There was no chance to chat, just enough time for a smile and a thank you.

Her Thighness has her money. Why schmooze with the rabble any longer than necessary. Funny, stuff like that is what got Martha Stewart a lot of criticism.

[Paul Atreides]

Notice that it said that she signed 2000 copies. Since this is Hillary, it doesn't necessarily mean that all 2000 were sold.

[RonDog]

One elderly woman held a sign that read, "Watch for low-flying brooms."

Ruh roh. :o)

"One elderly woman..."

Them's FIGHTIN' words!

Where's all the LOVE and COMPASSION that these Liberals are so proud of?

[Windcatcher]

Has anyone else just had a memory flash in their minds from the movie Airplane!, where people have lined up to beat up the woman who has become hysterical?

"I can't take it anymore! I have to get out of here!"

"Calm down! Get a hold of yourself!"

"Excuse me, miss. Let me handle this...Calm down! (slap) Get a hold of yourself! (slap)"

"Doctor, you're wanted on the phone...Calm down! (slapitty-slap-slap) Get a hold of yourself! (slap)"

(camera pans back to show a long line of people, armed with boxing gloves, crowbars, guns...) :^)

[The Scorpion King]

"Melin finished "Living History" Tuesday night and discovered that Clinton had made the conversion from Goldwater Republican to Democrat in the 1960s, just as Melin did."

After a night of heavy drug use, and kinky sex with a complete stranger no doubt!