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EAGLES UP! FREEP'S ON! Hillary Invades St Louis Monday, Stand By To Repel Carpet Baggers [8/11/08]

Posted on 08/09/2003 12:26:41 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul

http://www.left-bank.com/

FROM THE WEBSITE:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will sign her latest book, Living History Monday, August 11 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. at Left Bank Books.

Due to the overwhelming response, we are completely sold out of tickets for this event. We still have copies of the book available.

Left Bank Books will CLOSE at 4 pm to prepare for the event and reopen at 5:30. People with tickets should form a line outside the store headed south on Euclid. The line will file through the store past Sen. Clinton’s table and out, She will sign up to two copies per person of Living History purchased from LBB. Bags and packages must be checked at the front door and retrieved upon exiting. The store will reopen for normal business after approximately 8 pm.

Location:

399 North Euclid at McPherson in the Central West End
St. Louis, MO 63108

It's shorrt notice, so who can let me know now that they'll be there?

Who's been active in ST Louis in previous FReeps?

If you're interested, but don't know where to start, we'll give upi everything you need to know to pull this off. It's safe, fun and a real experience.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; US: Illinois; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: booksigning; broom; heilhitlery; herheinous; hillary; livinghistory; noeyecontact; offwiththeirheads; stlouis
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Bump for a sucessful, safe, and fun FReep!
21 posted on 08/10/2003 10:03:33 PM PDT by BillF (FReep Hillary's booksignings and help preserve U.S. liberty!)
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To: Doctor Raoul
Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!

Any Show-Me freepers up? Freepmail me or post it here I will monitor this thread all day. I don't have any posters, camera, or costumes but I will show up with my voice.... This will be all over the news this evening... ballandpowder

22 posted on 08/11/2003 5:28:19 AM PDT by BallandPowder
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To: Doctor Raoul
The best way to freep hildebeast is by having her sign her book for you and then telling her she can keep her pack of lies! Grassontop
23 posted on 08/11/2003 2:01:38 PM PDT by Grassontop (Oodie and Coodie are dead and we can thank G.W. Bush! Fearless! Integrity counts! Sadomdie next!)
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To: BallandPowder
Any luck today?
24 posted on 08/11/2003 10:02:02 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: Ladytotheright
well..its in the Central West End so.. LOL
My band did an acoustic show at a coffee house that leads into Left Bank Books. Yeah...its defintiely LEFT ;)
25 posted on 08/11/2003 11:19:03 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket
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To: kristinn
Powder..Patch..Ball ... eh wet powder..

Didn't get a response from ANYBODY in the St. Louis area. On the bright side it doesn't look like she got to much press, channel 2 was fauning over her this morning...

26 posted on 08/12/2003 5:44:53 AM PDT by BallandPowder
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To: BallandPowder
What's funny is that I'm told one of the news reports noted that there were no protesters there like they were expecting some to be there.
27 posted on 08/12/2003 6:21:16 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: BallandPowder; Doctor Raoul; kristinn; lawgirl; All
In a way, I'm sorry I no longer live in St. Louis, as I most definitely would have greeted the Beaste. In any event, here's the Post-Dispatch's glowing, slobbering account of the visit:

With a wide smile and an easy laugh, Sen. Clinton makes a big impression
By Deborah Peterson
Post-Dispatch
08/12/2003


She sat, she smiled, she signed, she shined.

Hillary Clinton, dressed in a sleek turquoise top and black pants with gold and turquoise jewelry, signed more than 1,000 copies of her memoir "Living History" at Left Bank Books in the Central West End on Monday. Her hair was gently tousled and she had the wide smile and willing laugh that didn't seem to come as naturally when she was the nation's first lady. But as Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., she is sensational.

After flying in from a book-signing in Atlanta, signing books here for nearly three hours, and facing an immediate turnaround flight to Minneapolis, Clinton was still bubbly about her visit.

"It was terrific," she told this columnist. "It was so well done. The bookstore people were fabulous. People were in such a good humor. I think it was an excellent book-signing, and I've done enough of them now that I should know."

Clinton also dropped that even though she will be returning to her full-time job as senator once her book tour is over, she will continue to read drafts of husband Bill's book, which is due out next summer. The senator said she feels that part of the difference in her image is that now she has a defined job and people are seeing her for herself, not in the symbolic role she filled as first lady.

"I feel like I'm the same person," she noted. "But part of the perception has to do with my being judged on my own now. The first lady is a derivative role, and being senator has a job description."

Clinton said she has always been a fan of biographies and autobiographies and just finished reading Katharine Hepburn's autobiography Sunday night.

"I loved it," she said. "I'm a huge Hepburn fan."

Clinton managed to do a little local networking, even though she was surrounded by a security detail, an advance team, publisher's agents and staffers. She said she was particularly happy to have seen her childhood friend, Sue O'Callahan Lorenz, who is married to a dentist here. She also met with state Treasurer Nancy Farmer, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, hoping to challenge Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo. Later in the day, she met with Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr., D-Mo. And shortly before she wrapped up the signing about 7 p.m., Clinton met with former Sen. Jean Carnahan and her daughter, Robin Carnahan, who has announced her candidacy for Missouri secretary of state. Clinton and Jean Carnahan were freshman senators together and mulled over old times. Jean Carnahan is writing her memoirs under the working title "Don't Let the Fire Go Out," and the women talked about Clinton writing a blurb for Carnahan's book jacket. The University of Missouri Press is interested in publishing Carnahan's book.

Pols weren't the only Clinton friends to stop by the signing. Along with her own friend, Sue, Hillary saw Cara Nussbaum, a Claytonian and Wash U. grad and friend of Chelsea Clinton and her boyfriend, Ian Klaus. Klaus, a Belvedere, Calif., native and Rhodes scholar, was a friend of Nussbaum's and fellow Wash U. grad. Hillary Clinton said she called Chelsea immediately after the signing to tell her Cara had dropped by.

Nussbaum is well-known in her own right. She was a cast member last year on "The Real World: Chicago," an MTV reality series that recruited seven beautiful strangers to live and work together for four months. She grew up in Boston and moved to the Lou after her father, Samuel R. Nussbaum, was hired as a top administrator at BJC Health Systems. She is working in Los Angeles.

A trio from Rockford, Ill., who had waited about four hours to get their books signed, said the wait had been worthwhile. "Hillary is making history," said Mike Ewaldz, one of the group. "She's maybe going to be a president real soon. Or at least in six years."

Marilyn Gomerich, a legal aide at Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, said Clinton had complimented her on an amber necklace she was wearing (even though she got it at ABC Trading for only $6!). Her friend, Paula Gonterman from Granite City, wasn't to be outdone. "She told me she loves my glasses," Gonterman crowed, modeling her pinkish-mauve sunglasses.

Paula Griffith of Maplewood, who got her Clinton book as a 50th birthday present (on June 14) from her friend, Julie Tolle of Fenton, said the senator told her: "The 50s are great."

Local merchants had ringside seats for the event, which had a partylike atmosphere. Joseph Schall, who owns Joseph's Fine Jewelers on McPherson Avenue just west of Euclid, used the opportunity to pass out "tax holiday" cards, offering tax-free sales to shoppers who brought in signed copies of the senator's book. Pete Rothschild set up a chair in front of Rothschild's Antiques, across the street from Left Bank Books, and held court there. Marty Kaplan of Marty's Baking had one of his employees, Deborah Krebs, dog-sit for Toffe and Joffe. The pair of cockapoos couldn't get into the book-signing with their owner, Karen Kalish of Clayton. Kaplan sent Clinton off with one of his great mayo-less tuna fish sandwiches, a turkey sandwich, and two bottles of water with sides of chips and fruit. We don't know how she did it, but the senator resisted a sample of Marty's "death by chocolate" brownie. If she only knew what she had missed ...

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/Columnists.nsf/Deb+Peterson/9F31C9722DC121EB86256D8000180D0D?OpenDocument&Headline=With+a+wide+smile+and+an+easy+laugh,+Sen.+Clinton+makes+a+big+impression
28 posted on 08/12/2003 6:24:26 AM PDT by mountaineer
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ARRRGG!! I sure wish I lived in St Louis right now!!! I'd love to freep that witch. I JUST moved to Wisconsin two weeks ago.
29 posted on 08/12/2003 9:30:07 AM PDT by lawgirl (The only thing the French should be allowed to host is an invasion. -Johnny English)
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