Hundreds save place in line to meet Clinton (Bookstore only sells 200 out of 500 tickets)

The State ^ | Today | T.D. MOBLEY-MARTINEZ

[The Anti-Democrat]

The mini-muffins, chocolate-chip cookies, bottles of water and a carafe of coffee still waited for takers Sunday afternoon, but the line outside The Happy Bookseller was long gone.

In a little more than an hour after doors opened at 1 p.m., about 200 people — mostly women in their 40s — coursed through the store, all to pick up Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new book, “Living History.” The $28 purchase also buys a numbered place in line for Clinton’s book-signing between 2:30 and 4 p.m. today.

It was fewer than the 500 store owner Andy Graves had estimated last week. “I was driving in today,” Graves told a customer as he took her check, “and I had this great trepidation that there would be thousands of people waiting.”

He laughed.

“Oh, I’m not disappointed,” Graves said later. “It’s the kind of thing that’s good to have some play, especially with Yom Kippur and with the State Fair and all that’s going on.”

The good news, he said, is that there will probably be tickets available today. Only 500 will be sold.

Maria Walker, a 46-year-old auditor with the state, called not long after 1 p.m. and found that they were already issuing ticket No. 75.

“I got dressed right away and came down,” she said. “I thought there was going to be an after-church crowd.” Walker looked around the store, which by 2:30 p.m. had about as many employees as customers.

The copy of “Living History” Walker bought Sunday is not her first. She’s given two or three of them as gifts. This purchase is for posterity, in a way.

“She was the first lady, and if I have a chance to get it autographed, I will,” said Walker, who will be No. 207 in line today.

No. 205 didn’t realize she had a number. “Oh my gosh,” said Mary Vaughn, 45, “I have a number?”

Vaughn, a social work therapist, will be at the book-signing for her mother, who died last year of bladder cancer. Betty Ann Mullins Vaughn, 67, was a fan of Sen. Clinton.

“I know she would want me to be here,” Vaughn said.

[Truth666]

But if you have the right hardware, you can still make believe the fools that Clinton & Co. are the most popular personalities ...
secrets of touch-screen voting unveiled

[2nd_Amendment_Defender]

The suckers actually paid $28.00 for the book? You can get it for less than $5.00 anywhere... soon it will be yours for just 25 cents at public library sales.

I wouldn't pay two cents for Hillary's lying book. The only thing the book would be good for is target practice with my rifle.

[Libertina]

“I thought there was going to be an after-church crowd.”
I have a difficult time reconciling the words democrat and church in the same sentence...

[JustPiper]

Bump!

[longfellow]

“I know she would want me to be here,” Vaughn said.
"She told me from Hell."

[talleyman]

Notice the demographics of The Beast's admirers. A gubment auditor and a social work therapist.

Says it all, don't it?

[weegee]

The book has been published in China; I'm waiting to hear when she will be visiting her Chicom pals. After all, she had them over for coffee. It's a good opportunity to collect some more foreign cash payments.

[Toespi]

or garage sales

[weegee]

There are 19 "signed" copies on ewwwwwwBay right now.

Cherished heirloom my @ss.

They'd better not put it in the bathroom for reading material, someone may mistake it for emergency TP...

[halfdome]

You can get the book $5.00 anywhere? Sheesh, I still see suckers buying it for full price, or the standard 30% markdown for bestsellers, because it's still on the NY Times and LA Times bestseller lists. I'll have to tell them where to get it for $5.00? Where's that again?

[halfdome]

I always hear that America is the most church going country in the world. So out of our population of roughly 292 million, only Republicans go to church? Wow, there are a lot more Republicans than I thought.

[reformed_democrat]

Ha! Ha! Ha! - After church crowd..

You noticed that too, eh?

I wonder what color the sky is on her planet.

[T.Smith]

Yes, and not selling very well.

[weegee]

There is no sky on her planet. It's already fallen!

[Libertina]

LOL Hope that's true...

[Doctor Raoul]

“I know she would want me to be here,” Vaughn said.

If Mom made it to heaven, she's screamimg, "No, No, Nooooooo......"

[Doctor Raoul]

Hey, for $28, you can see the World's Smartest Woman play dumb. That's a bargin.

[Doctor Raoul]

This would be the 36th public signing that we know of.

She's been hiding from us. SimonSays.com no longer lists her book tour. That's because she's done over 40 book related events and only 3 911 family funerals. He publicity folks only admit to over 17 book signings.

[gitmo]

The mini-muffins, chocolate-chip cookies, bottles of water and a carafe of coffee still waited for takers Sunday afternoon, but the line outside The Happy Bookseller was long gone.

SC was the last state to do away with Blue Laws. A bunch of sandlappers now wish they had them back.

[Truth666]

Another example of unprecedented extent of fraud : polls, overweighting Davis. It's impossible that 43% want to keep Davis (SURVEY USA, 10/6/03) .
For instance a total of 35 supporters showed up to hear Davis at Long Beach.