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Book wait ‘worth every minute’ (Barf Alert)
The State ^ | Today | SARAH SABALOS

Posted on 10/07/2003 3:41:43 AM PDT by The Anti-Democrat

Mary Vaughn has unusual plans for her signed copy of U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Living History.”

She’s going to wrap it in a waterproof bag and put it on her mother’s grave.

“My mother was my hero, and she loved and adored Hillary Clinton,” Vaughn said while waiting in line for Monday’s book signing at The Happy Bookseller. “She thought Hillary was Princess Diana and Eleanor Roosevelt rolled into one.”

Clinton signed more than 800 books Monday afternoon before heading to Furman University for a political forum.

Vaughn brought a five-page letter asking Clinton to be the spokesperson for bladder cancer, the disease that took her mother’s life.

Vaughn’s ticket numbers were 206 and 207, so she had something of a wait. As the line moved quickly forward, she agonized over what to say to the senator.

But she didn’t go to quite the lengths of the first five women in line, a group calling themselves The Fabulous Five.

“We slept in the parking lot,” said Frankie Singley Middleton, who bought the first of about 500 tickets available at 6:45 a.m. Saturday morning. “We had doughnuts and newspapers — it was a wonderful time.”

“This is better than a concert,” said her new parking-lot friend, Michelle Sprinkle.

At the end of the line — behind several hundred people of all colors, ages, and genders — was JoAnn Schmidt. She didn’t have a ticket, but hoped Clinton would sign a book for her anyway.

“I’m a big fan. I’ve loved her from Day One, followed her, had fights about her, lost friends,” Schmidt said.

Across the parking lot, a Republican group set up a voter-registration table. Behind it was a life-size cutout of President Bush.

A rock-star cheer erupted in line when Clinton arrived at 2:30 in one of several black, darkly tinted government vehicles.

About 20 minutes later, the senator sat down at the signing table inside the store. The line snaked around the back of the building along Forest Drive.“Hello, ma’am,” she said, extending her hand to one of The Happy Bookseller’s staff members. “Hillary Clinton. Nice to meet you.”

Clinton took a moment with each book holder to answer questions and receive compliments and hugs. After 10 minutes, she had the first of several lipstick prints on her cheeks.

“Are you on a fixed income?” she asked one woman who inquired about the state of Medicare.

She asked book buyers about their jobs and hometowns, fielding questions like, “Where’s Bill?”

“I left him at home,” she laughed.

“There’s a devil across the street,” one man said to Clinton, gesturing toward the cutout of Bush.

“Yeah, he follows me around,” Clinton replied. “It must be a full-time job, I guess.”

As the line moved quickly forward, Vaughn wrote a note to Clinton on the first page of her book.

Meanwhile, the Fabulous Five had congregated outside.

“It was worth every minute of sleeping in the parking lot,” said Middleton, who was happy that several disabled people had gone ahead of her in line.

“I was so glad they did that,” she said. “Because Hillary is for people who are able to take care of themselves as well as people who are not; people who have to overcome. There is such a sincerity in her soul.

“She’s going to be our first lady president.”

Anita Abercrombie said she hoped that might be the case.

“She’s the only female who has a chance,” she said. “This is part of her strategy in general — going from city to city, piquing interest.”

Even those who won’t be able to vote until the year 2015 knew they were at a special event.

“She’s nice,” said Tia Murrell, 6.

“I brought her so that she would be a part of history-making,” said Tia’s grandmother, Priscilla.

Vaughn walked away from the signing table with tears in her eyes.

“I said to her, ‘I’m standing in line for two people,’ and I told her about my mother and about what I was going to do with the book,” she said. “I asked if she might be able to help us.

“She saw me tear up, and then looked at me very firmly and said, ‘I will do something.’ ”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: freepers; hillary; witch
Follow-up to yesterday's article. No mention of the fact that the event was WAY undersold!

My favorite part is about the 6-year old kid who attended: as if she had a choice.

1 posted on 10/07/2003 3:41:44 AM PDT by The Anti-Democrat
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To: All
Got a minute?
I'd really like you to rub my ears,
or help out FR.

2 posted on 10/07/2003 3:43:29 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: The Anti-Democrat
She’s going to wrap it in a waterproof bag and put it on her mother’s grave.

Is this like pee-ing on one's grave? She must really hate her mum!

3 posted on 10/07/2003 3:44:49 AM PDT by camle (no fool like a damned fool)
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To: The Anti-Democrat
She's going to wrap it in a waterproof bag

She must be an environmentalist, since that would keep the gasoline from evaporating.

4 posted on 10/07/2003 3:45:51 AM PDT by palmer (The preceding post is not harassment)
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To: The Anti-Democrat
“I’m a big fan. I’ve loved her from Day One, followed her, had fights about her, lost friends,” Schmidt said.

"Lost friends?" Over Hillary? Her friends probably had no idea how stupid she was.

Once again, the Clintons leave shattered lives and relationships in their wake.

5 posted on 10/07/2003 3:46:10 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: The Anti-Democrat
Vaughn walked away from the signing table with tears in her eyes.

Must have gotten too close to that pantsuit.
6 posted on 10/07/2003 3:56:54 AM PDT by kenth (This is not your father's tagline.)
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To: The Anti-Democrat
Clinton signed more than 800 books Monday afternoon before heading to Furman University for a political forum.

New Yorkers should be very proud of how they are paying her salary...
7 posted on 10/07/2003 3:58:38 AM PDT by grumple
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To: The Anti-Democrat
“There’s a devil across the street,” one man said to Clinton, gesturing toward the cutout of Bush.

“Yeah, he follows me around,” Clinton replied. “It must be a full-time job, I guess.”

No bias in the press, sure. That reply doesn't even make any sense- even if Bush is the devil as intimated by the totally professional non-biased reporter, since when does he follow hillary around?

Anyone know if Dr. Raoul or somebody was there in a devil costume?

8 posted on 10/07/2003 4:06:14 AM PDT by Vesuvian
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To: Vesuvian
I read a Freeper's account last night of how they had a picture of President Bush AND someone with a Devil's costume at this signing;

accurate reporting by the media strikes again!
9 posted on 10/07/2003 4:24:33 AM PDT by giznort
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To: The Anti-Democrat
If I had a choice between Hilary's book on my mothers grave and seeing a dog crap there I would vote for the dog.
10 posted on 10/07/2003 4:25:31 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
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To: The Anti-Democrat
(I accidentally posted this as a duplicate before I saw yours, so I'll just stick my comments down here)

Comments:

1. It should surprise noone that The Statist, a Knight-Ridder fishwrap with all the high standards (cough) that that entails, could somehow completely miss Hillary's Gate Cult standing across the street in a devil costume and think that the "devil" was a cardboard cutout of President Bush!

2. These women are SCARY. I mean, super-duper, top-drawer, lock-'em-up-in-an-institution scary. If Hitlery ever commanded 'em to castrate their husbands, there'd better be a lot of guys sleeping in metal codpieces that night.

3. I so want Condi Rice to run for President and flat-out kick Hillary's huge ass back to Arkansas or Chappaqua or Hell or wherever.

4. Oh, Mary Vaughn? Yeah, she'll do something, all right. She'll tax you blind to pay for nationalized health care, so that any OTHER people that get bladder cancer like your poor mom, will end up having to wait so long for treatment that they will be assured of death. But hey, the hospice care and painkillers for the agonizing last month of their lives will be free! Idiot.

5. "He follows me around." Heh. Heh heh heh. MUHAHAHAHAAAAAA!

On behalf of Columbia, I'd like to apologize for the image of our city that these morons put forth. We are mostly a nice conservative place, I guess everywhere has a group of Bund Hillary Maedel like these Kool-Aid drinkers. Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Crusty?

}:-)4


11 posted on 10/07/2003 4:56:00 AM PDT by Moose4 (There is no problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by a suitable application of explosives.)
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To: Moose4; Vesuvian
"The State" is so biased it is almost comical. What a weird name for a newspaper!

Admittedly, a straight line from Hillary's position to the devil did go through the Bush cardboard cutout.

"“There’s a devil across the street,” one man said to Clinton, gesturing toward the cutout of Bush.

“Yeah, he follows me around,” Clinton replied. “It must be a full-time job, I guess.” "

Yes, we freeped Detailed Freep Report

12 posted on 10/07/2003 5:02:53 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Ask me about the connection between socialism, communism, drug war lords and vodka.)
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To: The Anti-Democrat
“She thought Hillary was Princess Diana and Eleanor Roosevelt rolled into one.”

The dumb broad left out Mother Teresa fer' crissake! Ever wonder why some guys beat their wives?

13 posted on 10/07/2003 5:04:38 AM PDT by johnny7 (May God save our Republic... because we can't be bothered. -American voters)
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To: johnny7; Moose4; upchuck; JohnnyZ; Hillarys Gate Cult; Vesuvian

Hillary's Gate Cult, Upchuck, and TaxDeduction3 (Taxrelief-behind camera)

14 posted on 10/07/2003 5:10:52 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Ask me about the connection between socialism, communism, drug war lords and vodka.)
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To: johnny7
Why would any of her followers compare Hillary to just a mere princess or only a historically significant first lady? Mustn't make Hera mad.
15 posted on 10/07/2003 5:11:41 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult ("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
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To: Moose4; All
I rent a storage unit from a mini-warehouse type facility and recently had a coversation with the manager. Apparently all their units are rented and she is looking for additional space for another tenant, Johnny Cochran. (Cochran of O.J. fame has sold his name for top billing on the letterhead of my city's largest ambulance chasing, sue your pants off law firm.) It seems that Cochran is stuck with numerous copies of his book, A Lawyer's Life. He has several large (10x18) units rented and they are stacked floor to ceiling with unsold copies of his book. The manager stated there are already thousands of copies in her warehouse and he needs room for more.

I thought it odd that the author would be stuck with all the extra copies. Maybe his friends and clients bought numberous copies as a favor or in return for a future favor to inflate sales, generate income, or justify a large advance. Of course, during our conversation, I was reminded of what I've always thought to be incredibly inflated sales of Lying History. I wonder where Hillary's books are being stored.

16 posted on 10/07/2003 5:22:47 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Quilla
Hillary's extra copies are probably being stored in the homes of her fans who bought multiple copies just to boost the ratings. I have already seen the book available, once for 50 cents and once for a dollar, at two yard sales. (Unwanted gifts?)
17 posted on 10/07/2003 6:08:05 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Ask me about the connection between socialism, communism, drug war lords and vodka.)
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