She looks like a fat popsicle with a head. Hillary, hint: your fashion advisor is NOT your friend!
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.
She looks like a fat popsicle with a head. Hillary, hint: your fashion advisor is NOT your friend!
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The Plain Dealer » More From The Plain Dealer Cuyahoga County News Hillary Clinton's 'History' makes history at bookstore
08/14/03
Carolyn Jack
Plain Dealer Arts Reporter
Hillary Rodham Clinton was not openly campaigning last night in Cleveland's Shaker Square.
Instead, a lot of people were doing it for her, wearing "Hillary for President" buttons, cheering "Hillary in 2008" and signing up for Clinton booster groups at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, where the former first lady drew a crowd of about 2,000 for a book-signing of her recently published autobiography, "Living History."
Clinton, now a Democratic U.S. senator from New York, made an entrance by descending from the store's second floor to the first in a glass elevator to the delighted screams of onlookers who had begun gathering about 3 p.m., two hours before the signing actually began.
She waved to the crowd, posed for pictures with her book and immediately set about signing 1,000 copies of it for purchasers who had been given tickets to the signing by the store starting in June.
"Living History" already has made history by becoming the fastest-selling work of nonfiction ever.
First in line was a beaming Gladys Thomas, 64, of Shaker Heights. Earlier, while waiting for the queue to form, Thomas had expressed her unhappiness with President Bush. She said one of the reasons she came to get her book signed was her hope that Sen. Clinton would beat Bush in the upcoming presidential race.
"If anybody's gonna do it, it would be her," Thomas said.
Jean Joseph, 79, who lives in Shaker Square, agreed. Joseph, a native of Martha's Vineyard, where the Clintons often vacation, said: "I think she's fabulous, and the book's fabulous. I have a lot of admiration for the kind of human being she is. I even like Bill."
After Clinton signed her book, Joseph said she had told the senator that she had delayed a vacation trip to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts by a day so she could attend the signing.
While Clinton smiled, greeted people and wrote her name hundreds of times, local supporters Lana Moresky and Roberta Feinstein were in the store lobby, handing out forms to people interested in signing up for a Clinton support group.
"I'm doing this on my own because I couldn't let this opportunity go by," Moresky said, showing a bunch of already-filled-out forms.
Demand for the forms was so great, Feinstein added, "They're ripping it out of my hand."
But the opposition was there, too. A few protesters stood across the street from the store, bearing anti-abortion and anti-Hillary posters. One, scribbled in black marker, read, "I would have made a good sign for Monica."
One group of protesters had been brought together through Freerepublic.com, a politically conservative Web site. They took issue with Clinton's politics and what they called her untruthfulness.
"A better title for her book would be 'Omitting History,' " said Tom Adams of Wadsworth, who was part of the Freerepublic.com group.
Protesters and fans alike remained peaceful throughout the afternoon and evening. Secret Service and Cleveland police had secured the back half of the Joseph-Beth building hours earlier, and the book-signing line moved efficiently through the densely peopled store to the rear, where television crews and reporters squeezed in to record Clinton scribbling and chatting with the mostly female crowd.
She had a big smile and hello for everyone, but especially for the children who walked through with their parents.
"What a pretty dress," she said to a little girl in a long gold and black velvet gown. The child said her name was Chelsea, like Clinton's daughter. "You're kidding!" Clinton said. "How do you spell it?"
By 7:15 p.m., Clinton had signed her last book, posed with the Joseph-Beth staff for souvenir pictures and bought some summer reading on her way out of the store. Her appearance was the largest gathering for an author that the store had ever hosted, said Joseph-Beth spokeswoman Stephanie Siegel.
Clinton press secretary Philippe Reines said the senator was heading to a local fund-raiser and then home to New York last night after a book tour that had taken her to Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis, Atlanta and Detroit before coming to Cleveland.
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Yeh, I always dressed my daughter in a gown to go to the store when it's 90 degrees.
Roger Bannon??? ROTFL! ;-D
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George Will continues: There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that. ... Furthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism GEORGE WILL, SLEAZE, THE SEQUEL |
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When Alex kills a woman during a rape, Alex is sent to prison. A risible and repulsive result; While Alex is conditioned in prison with aversion therapy, In the end, We will have set apart clinton as the hero Mia T, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE |
The REAL "Living History" -- clintoplasmodial slime
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"Free Republic is one of those groups obsessed with the Clinton era." Word's out: Protest at Hillary's tonight
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This claim that the Secret Service shut down the book signing is highly questionable. Maybe it's a cover story to disguise the fact that they had more tickets than Hillary worshippers.
The Secret Service would NOT have called it a day unless they feared some substantial danger to their protectee. They had to know that the FReepers were there only to protest and ridicule her majesty. And I doubt that the few leftists were a threat.
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