Long lines greet Hillary at area book signing

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

[ppaul]

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."

[Paul Atreides]

Leave it to you to put good images in our heads! :-)

[Paul Atreides]

I wonder if Melin let's her husband cheat, like Hillary.

[austingirl]

When she's wearing old crusty, she is her own stink bomb.

[austingirl]

I swear I hadn't read your post when I posted this same comment below, lol!

[ppaul]

When she's wearing old crusty, she is her own stink bomb.

From the book tour photos, it appears that she's always wearing "ol' crusty"!
Eeeeeeewwwwwe!!!

[Roscoe Karns]

tell her that the bug eyes

It's her phony "see, I'm not icy and aloof. I'm warm and genial" look.

[Orangedog]

Long lines greet Hillary at area book signing

Too bad those people weren't carrying torches and pitch-forks.

[Eala]

A dozen protesters stood at the intersection, waving signs, screaming at passing cars and heckling those waiting in line.

And here we see what passes for honesty and truth on the Left. We were a good long way from the line, far out of the reach of voice, almost beyond readability of our signs. But as we've seen from the gay lady, the New York Times, on down, truth is no substitute for left-wing propaganda in the press. Kraft is merely the latest panderer in a long, um, proud tradition in this profession that exceeds even the other, longer known for its lies and falsifications, in search of power and money.

But geez. It's called the "Post-Intelligencer." Tell me: What is one after one is no longer intelligent? There you have the paper's market: Those who used to think they were intelligent (or maybe were, until they fell under the sway of the Left's ideologies)...

(Is it taking illegal, unfair advantage of them?)

[sport]

I plead guilty to being a "hillary hater".
I also plead guilty to being a "bill hater".

[Eala]

I was there. I didn't do any crowd estimate (because I coudn't see the entire line from our position) but I will confirm WAY over 100. What I did see would not be too far from the 1000 - 1200 "admirers." I did note that many of those who walked in past us were carrying two or more books in hand. (Were these "presales" to the signing event?)

[Eala]

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

My 2.3 seconds of fame and glory.

[Paul Atreides]

When she was campaigning for senator, she would always, ALWAYS come out to the cheering sheep and that big evil mouth of hers would always fly open and those Medusa eyes would bug out. She would also point to someone out in the audience and talk to the person.

[shaggy eel]

It's her phony "see, I'm not icy and aloof. I'm warm and genial" look.

,,, how many shots have we seen of that off the rack bugEYES 4.0 look from her when she's been at these book signing locations? What would people possibly say to her to make her invoke that singularly stupid look?

[maxwellp]

As a New York State citizen I wonder if she is doing anything for New York State. All I seem to see is Hillary Clinton promoting her book all over the world. I did not vote for her as junior Senator for New York. What's she going to do if she is elected as President of the USA? Write another book and promote it?

[Roscoe Karns]

Yeah, Greg Packer.

[Paul Atreides]

LOL!

[hoot2]

"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. "

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

do i need a "tinfoil hat"? is it possible that the beast has her own clone? the creature just signs books; doesn't "chat" with anyone....
is this possible?

[hoot2]

2000 copies; 2 hours.

2 hours x 3600secs/hour= 7200 secs.
7200 secs/divided by 2000 copies= 3.6 secs/signature...

for 2 solid hours...

is there anything that these people won't lie about?

[Chad Fairbanks]

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 bunch of BS - no one was screaming at passing cars, nor was anyone heckling anyone in line - we were not allowed to be anywhere near the line.

And the "Hillary Haters" thing - what a loaded phrase...

[Aarchaeus]

Get back to the senate ya' fat ass!!

Really? I can think of a few other places I'd rather see her go.