***Hilliary vs Harry and Ann...Corte Medera, California Booksigning***

We started off at our local B and N to pick up our copy of the new Harry Potter book, and after adjusting the display a little, headed down to Larkspur.

After doing our work in Larkspur, we started looking for directions to Book Passage. What better place than a little resturant to have a beer on a hot day like this.

I asked a nice couple there if they knew where the book store was, and it turns out they are friends with the owner. And apparantly they are the only conservative couple in Marin County!

They were more than happy to help fix the cover of our Harry Potter book so we could have Hilliary sign it.

The three of us agreed that if Hilliary would change her last name to Potter and wear those nifty brown glasses her book sales would skyrocked up into the double digits.

They introduced us to the owner of the resturant, a nice Korean man. He used to be the Mayor, and is now on the city council.

Their beer list was short and as it turned out, they only had Corona...with lemon. Wanting to experience other cultures, we found it quite refreshing.

We arrived a couple of hours before Hilliary was scheduled to arrive and talked to the milling crowds. We were told that Hilliary was going to pull up at 4:00 PM and come right past them and into the store through the front door.

I pointed out to them that she was always late and that she (as her husband did also) always uses the back door.

One gentleman asked, "They have a back door." I was able to assure him that the Clintons don't go anywhere that does not have a way for them to sneak in and out with out having to mix any of the "little people"

While milling around the store, we found two copies of Treason. On a back shelf.

I then ran into a political consultant and activist I hadn't seen for a couple of years, and she took the two copies off the shelf and properly displayed them on a table right inside the front door.

Needless to say, the "guard" at the front door (male of female, I couldn't tell) spotted Coulter's book after about 20 minutes, and disposed of it.

"Making Hillary Clinton Uncomfortable in Marin"

Posted by Kevin Willmann
Monday, June 30, 2003

New York Senator (and former co-President of the United States Hillary Clinton) paid California’s Marin County a visit this past Saturday, as part of her publicity tour for her tome "Living History."

Judging from the estimated 800 to 1,000 people gathered to get a personally signed copy of the book, it’s obvious the people who lecture conservatives to get over the Clintons still can’t get enough of them. However, those in attendance were not treated to a speech, nor a question/answer session with New York’s version of Evita Perron.

My wife and I joined a "welcoming committee" for the senator as she came to the bookstore. Signs such as "It Takes An Idiot To Enable A Predator," "What About Juanita, Kathleen and Grace?," "Hillary Knew," and "Welcome From The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" were held up as Clinton’s entourage drove into the parking lot.

There were thumbs up and waves to the group from motorists, but also some middle-fingers and curt words.

"Get a life" and "Get over it" were screamed by some as they drove into the parking lot to see Clinton in person. One soccer-mom yelled "You should be ashamed of yourselves" as she drove by in her mini-van.

As some are probably aware, I’m sick and tired of the Clintons. I wrote on November 16, 2002, how much I wished Bill Clinton would go away. The same applies to Hillary. They are desperately trying to stay relevant in an era where their view of the world is dangerous. However, the mainstream media, as well as Hillary’s book buyers, keep them coming back for more. Thus, we cannot help but spend time commenting on them or protesting them.

The Clintons suffer from the same megalomania that plagued those baby boomers who were 1960’s radicals. They did not have to suffer through the Great Depression and a World War. There was no sense of tradition, duty, and love of country. Instead, they craved self-gratification through free-love, drugs, and the Grateful Dead. While some (like David Horowitz, for example) saw the light and had second thoughts, people like the Clintons still believe the radical ideas of the 1960’s have meaning.

And they could never admit that they were wrong. It was always someone else’s fault.

That same self-obsession is why the Clintons won’t go away. Ignoring the tradition of not criticizing their successors in the White House, both take daily pot shots at President Bush.

''I wish we could turn the clock back on economic policies in particular, because I think they worked for America,'' Hillary said in the mailing from the bookstore which held her event. When Barbara Walters asked her what the most disappointing event was since leaving office, Hillary said it was the economy. In November 2001, Hillary publicly blamed the Bush tax cut, 80 percent of which had not gone into effect, for causing the nation to go into the red.

Here’s a question for Hillary: Did you forget what happened on September 11, 2001, to the state and nation you are supposed to represent? All you two cared about in eight years was the economy. Both of you sure didn’t care about protecting America from foreign terrorists. I hope you enjoyed the economy of the 1990s, because 3,000 people paid the check on 9/11.

Anyway, back to Hillary’s book. I haven’t read it and I can easily judge this book by its cover. In lieu of a book review, I can sum up Living History in one sentence. Living History is like putting chocolate frosting on cow patties and calling it chocolate cake. Unfortunately, too many people will be screaming for second helpings. Hillary does not address whether or not Bill raped Juanita Broaddrick in 1978. The loss of nuclear secrets to the Chinese, selling Presidential Pardons, and failure to nail Osama bin Laden are also not addressed. If you want to read a real book about Hillary, buy Hell To Pay and The Final Days by the late Barbara Olson, a true American hero.

When the crowd evaporated, my wife and I ventured over to the bookstore. Hillary was about to make her exit and we waited in the crowd. Some boos and catcalls were heard as she made her way outside.

As she passed right in front of me, I yelled above the crowd, "Hey Hillary!"

She looked my way, with that phony smile.

"Do you believe Juanita Broaddrick?"

Her grin gave way to a scowl as she quickly turned away and got into her mini-van.
http://www.chronwatch.com/featured/contentDisplay.asp?aid=3296

Hillary, book a hit in Marin
By Beth Ashley, IJ reporter

"The name of this story," said Carol Schrumpf of Larkspur, "is 'Waiting for Hillary.'"

Waiting was the fate of more than 1,000 Hillary Rodham Clinton fans who lined up hours ahead of her appearance yesterday afternoon at Book Passage in Corte Madera where she signed copies of her smash-hit autobiography, "Living History." Several in the line had arrived at 8 a.m. A woman from the San Fernando Valley - who declined to give her name - had been there since 3:30 in the morning, more than 12 hours before Clinton arrived.

No matter how long the wait and although Clinton didn't give a speech or read from her book, most in the crowd, like Molly Eschen of Larkspur, were pleased just to have seen her. "I wouldn't have missed it for the world," Eschen said. "I think she's great."

Clinton, who had flown into San Francisco from Chicago, breezed through a side door of the bookstore shortly after 4 p.m., waving to a carefully roped-off crowd which erupted in applause. Then she got down to business, signing an estimated 2,000 books, many of them ordered beforehand online, and fed to her assembly-line style as she sat at a table facing a line that snaked from the bookstore into the state Department of Motor Vehicles parking lot next door.

For an hour and a half she greeted all comers, bestowing on each a flawless smile, murmuring variations of "Hi," "hello," "how are you?" "thanks for coming," and occasionally grasping an outstretched hand. The signing went like clockwork - the IJ timed her at 23 books a minute - and Clinton never turned a hair, looking fresh throughout in a black linen pant suit, big pearls and light blue sweater/blouse.

The crowd was predominantly women, and ranged in age from Alice Myers of the Tamalpais retirement home in Greeenbrae to babe-in-arms Maverick Googins of Corte Madera, seven months.

"I told her I might not be around to vote for her for president," Myers said, "but that I'd be thinking of her."

Jana Newman, 26, and Chloey Egge, 20, from Oakland drew a big "oooh" from Clinton when they presented themselves to her in tee tops bearing Hillary 2004 bumper stickers.

For many in the crowd, the event was about supporting Clinton politically. Several wore "Hands Off Hillary" buttons left over from past campaign wars, and some wore shirts announcing that "A woman's place is in the House, The Senate and the Oval Office."

"I hope she'll be the first female president," said Gina Anderson of Sacramento, a third-year law student who had arrived at 8 a.m. "I'm a great fan."

"We're hoping for '08," said Rosemary Straley of Santa Rosa, who heads the nationwide Hillary Rodham Clinton Support Network, "to back her public policy agenda and campaign for her, whatever her aspirations."

"I don't care about getting a book signed," said Konnilynn Feig of San Rafael. "I'm here to acknowledge all the things she's achieved."

The Book Passage appearance was Clinton's only scheduled book event in northern California, and was planned in concert with a 6 p.m. $100-a-ticket fund-raiser at the Fairmont Hotel for fellow Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. (Boxer's daughter Nicole was once married to Hillary's brother, Tony Rodham.)

Paula Herman, in charge of the bookstore event, said Clinton's appearance was one of the store's biggest ever, and one of the most complex, given the advance demand for books and the rules laid down by Clinton's staff. Eight hundred books were sold ahead of time, and buyers got blue tickets or pink, depending on time of purchase, getting places in line accordingly.

No one was seated (except a group of disabled patrons and Hillary herself) and all were funneled through aisles outlined in tape. News reporters were confined to a taped-off press box, in which half-a-dozen photographers wriggled to take shots.

Five Secret Service men and a Clinton "advance person," Stacey Rubin, kept tabs on the crowd. Book Passage staffers served ice water to those waiting in the heat outside. Bookstore owners Bill and Elaine Petrocelli hovered and expedited where they could, both hollow-eyed after getting off an airplane from London just a few hours before.

Elaine, who had taken Clinton's book on vacation to Italy, called it "fabulous reading." Published by Simon and Schuster, the book had a record-breaking advance sale and now sits on best-seller lists next to the latest Harry Potter.

When the signing was over at about 5:30, Clinton posed for a picture with bookstore staff, waved to stragglers inside the store, grinned at a cheering crowd of 200 waiting outside, stepped into a dark blue Dodge Caravan with opaque rear windows, and whirled off to her 6 p.m. date in San Francisco.
http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24407~1485058,00.html

How can the words "Coulter" and "unattractive" be used in the same sentence?

I've always preferred brunettes. ;-)

(she is very beautiful, but her voice grates on my nerves -- I know that accent well -- and I hate the way she snort-laughs...heh...I still worship Michelle Malkin and have a crush on Condie Rice, do I get points for that? *grin* the most important thing, aside from my visceral dislike of her, is that I agree with her...most of the time)

Anyway, I know, go figure, I'm like the only conservative guy (or gal, for that matter) who *would* kick her outta bead for eatin' crackers. :-) Some people just rub ya the wrong way.

And, mind you, I see that she is attractive, I just don't personally take a shine to her. I also would hasten to add that while I may not like Coulter on a stylistic level, I think she's a good person, and she's done a mostly admirable job of playing the sensationalist conservo-babe chick. She score a lot more points with me if she didn't go for the easy, cheap shots all the time (how much thought goes into "The Treason Times", etc? I hate those "pithy" Dowdish one-liners).

All that aside, I'm very tough on writers...she has a lot of raw talent, but I don't see her polishing it enough...which I think is probably the root of it. Coulter frustrates me because she *could* be so much classier if she eased up a bit, feinted, bobbed, weaved, instead of launching perpetual verbal grenades. You do that enough, they start to lose their effect...right...this has gone on long enough, heh, let me conclude by saying that I think she is a *very* talented young writer, a very attractive young woman (er, wait, older woman, for me, I guess), but she just rubs me the wrong way (no pun intended). I do await her arc to mellow maturation with baited breath, however.

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