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."

[oreolady]

Why schmoze? For political advertising, face time, that's all it is.

[oreolady]

Shame on you gusy heckling, why we in Portlan didn't heckle, how could we, the live radio said there were "only a handful" of us!!!!!

Good work Pugent Sound, Freepers.

[oreolady]

I saw and know POrtland had only 3---350 tops, because I was in front of the bookstore when the organizing woman came outside to announce who would go in store, her first numbers at 4 started with 340. The line didn't look like that many, tho, I would guess 200 tops.

[oreolady]

Why don't you check the voting record for her, and the bills she has put up, you may be shocked.
I can't put up links for you , but google her.

[oreolady]

Bub,but, on Jay Leno MOnday night, she said "I enjoy hearing their stories"!!!!!

Must be 7 second stories, lol.

[oceanperch]

My thought was Scott Peterson (sorry I know alot of you are sick of that name).

He was charming and innocent acting in a way smaller league than the Clinton's but for many of us that tend to be naive it is hard to understand evil wrapped up in a pretty package.

Another thing I noticed is she came across as the poor doormat wife.

No one claws to the top like her and Bill did by being the naive dumb blonde housewife.

I thought about that when she extended her little hand out for me to shake. I had a flash of a vision that it was a little claw. I will chalk it up to my mind having a circuit dysfunction for that moment.

[Mo1]

"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."

So basically she lost a days pay by taking off from from to stand in line for several hours .. just to get a blow off from hellary huh?

Oh yea .. real smart crowd there to meet Hellary

[FlyVet]

naive dumb blonde housewife.

Yup, she's a naive victim. And also The Smartest Woman in the World Top-100 Lawyer. She's dumb, but she's smart. She's both. Huh? Nice voting bloc. Getting both the admirers of "smart" and the admirers of "victim" to like you. She's evil, but she ain't stupid.

[oceanperch]

Would that be the description of Sociopathic serial killer?

I will never forget the two little boys on the railroad track in Arkansas.

Is Vince Foster's wife still alive?

Susan Mc Dougal is now married to Mark Gregaros' law partner down in Cali.

Jennifer Flowers life was swept under the rug nicely and her neighbor back in the day that was beatin' and the survellance tape taken.

The list almost seems endless.

[ppaul]

FYI

[mountaineer]

By Victor Balta
Herald Writer

Regardless of which side of the political spectrum they were on, Snohomish County residents turned out Wednesday with one thing on their minds:

"Am I shaking the hand of the first woman president?" Norma Kruger of Lynnwood wondered.

U.S. senator from New York and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park to sign more than 1,000 copies of her autobiography, "Living History."

The first 1,200-plus customers who bought the book were loosely entitled to -- but not guaranteed -- an autograph.

Kruger, who drew No. 1,013 and showed up about 9:30 a.m., wasn't sure of her chances as 1 p.m. neared. Clinton had only been scheduled to stay from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

"But they just came by and said she promised she'd sign every one of them," Kruger said with the smile of a true fan.

Pam Dinwiddie, also of Lynnwood, was a little nervous, clutching the precious ticket that gave her access to the blocked-off area of the bookstore where Clinton was signing.

"I've always loved Hillary," Dinwiddie said. "I support her politics. I would've voted for her instead of Bill, if I had the chance."

If she had the chance to say one thing to the former first lady, it would be, "Run in 2008."

Joy Townsend of Everett said she wasn't surprised at the turnout or that most in attendance were women.

"I hope to be alive when we have the first female president, and I hope it's Hillary," Townsend said. "She's been such a model for women. It does us good to pay her homage in this way."

Peggy Kellogg of Brier was a little more indifferent. She bought the book and had it signed, but the self-described "not a big Hillary fan" said she'd probably donate it to a school.

Holding No. 1,012, Kellogg thought her chances of getting her book signed were "minimal."

"I just came for the drama of the event," she said.

Linda McCarthy, also of Everett, said her moment with Clinton was brief, but the senator flashed McCarthy a smile.

"It's kind of exciting, having someone as well-known as she is coming into our little area," McCarthy said.

Still, she wouldn't commit to giving Clinton a presidential vote, if that time ever came.

"Politics change too quickly in this day and age," McCarthy said. "If she's on the call at the time, I might vote for her."

It's safe to say Greg Outman of Marysville likely wouldn't. He was among a contingent of protesters about 25-strong at one entrance to the shopping center.

"I'm here supporting our troops and supporting our community, and she doesn't," Outman said of Clinton. "I just wanted to voice my opposition to the fact that she's in the Senate. Everybody knows she only has interest in higher office."

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[CedarDave]

Pam Dinwiddie, also of Lynnwood, was a little nervous, clutching the precious ticket that gave her access to the blocked-off area of the bookstore where Clinton was signing. "I've always loved Hillary," Dinwiddie said. "I support her politics. I would've voted for her instead of Bill, if I had the chance."

Dinwiddie is a Dim-wit-tie

[Joy Angela]

Hillary is Money-Hungry...

Hence, her ever-expanding bellyfat

"Get in my belly" Hillary murmers as she
signs yet another book...

$$$ HIllary's BOTTOM-Line

[Richard Kimball]

She really is an attractive woman it is IMO that she isn't photogenic...

I think you've got the hots for Hill. You don't wander around the house singing Bette Davis Eyes, do you?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

The is THE WEEK THAT WAS =

HILLARY flops on LENO

LORETTA flops in CA Gov Recall Race

T'is a HILLARY/LORETTA 2004 Presidential/VP Ticket for sure 'cause...

THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER...

AND AMERICA DOESN'T.

[Quix]

POWER is her life-blood.

GREED FOR POWER IS HER CONSUMING CONSCIOUSNESS.

Money is merely a means to that end.

If she wanted someone terminated, she wouldn't care particularly how much it cost. She'd just want it DONE ASAP.

And of course, deniably.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!