Posted on 08/17/2003 4:43:02 AM PDT by JulieRNR21
VINEYARD HAVEN - The first two in line, sisters-in-law Kim and Marcia Quitadamo of Worcester, showed up outside the Bunch of Grapes bookstore at 5:30 - that's 5:30 a.m.
Within two hours, enough others had shown up for a 4 p.m. appearance by U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that Tisbury police asked bookstore manager Robby Bick to open his doors at 7:30 a.m., 90 minutes early.
"We have about 1,500 books in the store," Bick said early yesterday afternoon. "Or we had 1,500 books in the store," he said alluding to brisk sales.
The final stop on Clinton's book tour for her memoirs, "Living History," came yesterday on the Vineyard, a favorite vacation haunt of Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
The pair arrived by plane early yesterday afternoon, without their daughter, Chelsea. They are staying for a week at the Chilmark home of actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen.
The former president did not attend the book signing.
By 3 p.m., the line from Bunch of Grapes stretched 50 feet north to Centre Street, then down the road at least 150 yards.
Several people were asked why "Living History," a book that drew lukewarm reviews but sells 50,000 copies a week, is so popular.
"She has been able to weather the storm," said Debra Bullock, a Democratic activist from Baltimore and one of a group of seven. "I just think she has strength as a woman that is incredible."
"I just give that woman a lot of credit," said Bernardine Urquhart of Mashpee, a retired nurse. "I don't know if I could have held up."
Urquhart's husband, Bruce, who had bought a book about the 1919 molasses flood in Boston, said he was not surprised by the success of "Living History."
"I think she is a very interesting woman and a lot of people want to learn more about her," he said.
But not everyone who turned out was so enamored of the junior senator from New York.
Across the street stood a half-dozen demonstrators wearing masks, holding anti-Clinton signs and blaring the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil" and Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart."
One of the protesters, Roger Bannon of Palm Key, Fla., wore a Satan mask and held a sign reading, "Bill Clinton married my sister."
But the Clinton foes were outnumbered, as evidenced by the huge cheer that went up when Mrs. Clinton arrived a few minutes late in a green Suburban.
Given the expected crowd, a few conditions were in place. A limit of 1,000 books would be signed, with no inscriptions and only two per customer. The store had been checked out several times since Wednesday by Secret Service agents, a protection accorded Clinton as a former first lady.
One thousand tickets had been printed to guarantee patrons a place in line.
At the head of the line was Oak Bluffs resident Bonnie Meras, Class of '53 at Wellesley College, Clinton's alma mater.
"I was a poli-sci major, just as Hillary Clinton was," Meras said.
"Yay, Wellesley," Clinton said after Meras introduced herself. "Have you been back?"
Yes, for her 50th reunion, Meras said.
Clinton recognized another woman from previous visits to the island and the two hugged. "How has your summer been? You look fabulous."
Bookstore clerk Avia Moore said she noticed several women wipe away tears after Clinton greeted them and signed their books.
One woman told Moore she bought two books for her granddaughters, "because I want them to have books signed by the first female president," Moore recounted.
Clinton was still signing shortly after 6 p.m. when the Secret Service intervened and called it a day, according to Jon Nelson, who manages the bookstore with his mother, Ann Nelson, the owner. By then, about 950 of 1,000 tickets were gone.
After the last book was signed, Clinton posed for photos with bookstore employees who had just worked what they described as the busiest day they've had.
The Clintons havent paid for a vacation in over 35 years, Ill bet. They are freeloaders. They are scum. They are traitorious, ugly, hateful, slimy, mean, nasty, lying, murderous, conniving, deceitful, conceited, arrogant, unpatriotic, socialist, unfaithful, untrustworthy, fake, condescending, libelous, slanderous, criminal, unsavory, unsatisfactory, defective.......
Exactly...and when they occupied the WH...they spent millions on State Dinners to wich they invited their adoring media whores; took multimillion dollar trips to over 80 countries along with their cronies; bombed an aspirin factory to get the Monica mess off page one & turned the WH into Motel 1600 to raise illegal campaign money.......
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - wearing the latest in a long line of godawful unflattering outfits - signs a copy of her book, "Living History," for fellow Wellesley College alum Bonnie Meras yesterday at the Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Vineyard Haven.
Caption Hillary, wearing Ol' Pepto
8-16-03
Posted on 08/16/2003 5:26 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Moonman62
She[?] looks like a colorized version of Chairman Mao in that picture.See also, from Gallery - Mao Zedong:
CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
It's clear Hillary has no innate fashion sense.See also:
The outfit by itself isn't bad, but to add that godawful necklace? Ick!!!!
Entering the belly of The BEAST. My day with Hillary
Posted on 08/13/2003 10:35 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Today was a very special day.
I had the supreme opportunity to meet Hillary Rottenbottom at Miejer's Thrifty Acres, in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
I arrived around 10:30 am, for her 11:00 am book signing. The parking lot was packed.
I went into the store and was confronted by a sea of overweight housewives in white T shirts and shorts. You would have thought that this was an e-ticket ride for DisneyWorld. Fanny packs abound.
The line wound around the perimeter of the store. Hundreds upon hundreds of clones. All so very excited. They were there to meet their Queen.
I knew I had a long wait, and I was thinking of ditching the scene, because I was in heels, and I didn't feel like standing there for 2 hours just to meet her hieniousness.
Suddenly a dear friend of mine who is the camerman for a news station saw me in line, and asked what in the world I was doing there. I told him that I was up to shenanigans, and he told me to come with him, and pulled me out of line. He took me up near the front and placed me in line. I was about 25 people back from the Throne Of Hillary.
As I was waiting, I just stood and listened to the lobotomized clones around me. They could barely contain their glee. " Hillary is so wonderful. She will be our greatest president"." She is the best wife and mother"........
And don't even get me started about the wimpy men that were in line. It was mostly women, but there were a couple of husbands, probably because their wives were too overwrought with emotion to drive themselves to the Thrifty Acres.
Suddenly, with a smidgen of fanfare, from the bowells of hell, appears Hillary!. I called an audible. I said " Oh lord, she has a soccer ball in there". Oops, I didn't know I said that out loud. Silly me.
Yes indeed folks, Hillary, looking ever so hideous in a fuschia jacket, black trousers, and black sensible shoes, actually looks like she has a soccerball in her belly. Maybe it's a tumor, heck if I know, but there is something there. Hey, maybe it's a fannypack!
Today was obviously not a 'bath day' for the old gal. Her hair was undone, no makeup, no lipstick, but she did have earrings.
As we got closer, women around me started crying. Yes, you read that right, they were CRYING! They couldn't wait to meet Hillary. I honestly thought that some of them would pass out and die on the spot. It was from either too much excitement, or the copious amount of doughnuts that they had consumed over their lifetime.
There was an elderly lady in front of me that asked me for support. She felt faint from all the excitement.
..............as a small aside, Hillary is fuzzy. Remember those soaps you had as a kid, you got them wet and in a few days they grew fuz? Hillary has a very fuzzy face. And it's very round. Pumpkin round. Fuzzy and round and falling. Gravity is not being kind. ..........
Back to the old lady....
She kibbitzed with Hillary about how proud she was of her and how she will be a great president. Hillary shook her head, signed the books that were being shoved in front of her, and then came me.
I was in orange and fuschia in the sea of white T shirts and Hillary buttons.
Hillary was signing away and I said:"Who's on the cover of your book?"CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
Probably, the type who thought that The Hours was the best movie ever made.
Everyone laughed and the homeowner said she wouldn't be allowed to step on the grass.
Yes, there are intelligent women in Upstate New York!!
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