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.

[The Anti-Democrat]

Obviously, not the response Hillary expected.

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[aomagrat]

Hillary is breaking the boycott. The NAACP is going to be pissed.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

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

[Bon mots]

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.

[TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa]

“I thought there was going to be an after-church crowd.”


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

[theDentist]

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

Obviously she wanted very little in life.

[sticker]

Or was into S&M

[RonDog]

From www.happybookseller.com:

The Happy Bookseller
4525 Forest Dr.
Columbia, South Carolina

Note to the Hildabeast advance teem:

Stay OUT of the South. :o)

[SittinYonder]

That's the same response I had - after church crowd. Note, the woman had to get dressed to go down there. Obviously she wasn't coming from church.

[FreedomPoster]

Any SC Freepers going to hit this one? Who's got a ping list, it's not too late?

Proud "I bedeviled the Hildebeast - 2003 Lying History Tour" participant.

[JesseHousman]

Most morons who buy this book either never read it, or are unable to read anything.

[new cruelty]

"after-church crowd".

I too thought that was funny. I also liked the line "...with Yom Kippur and with the State Fair and all that’s going on". Not to mention National Coming Out Day is next Sunday. A lot of Hillary fans were probably too busy gearing up for that.

[Angelwood]

FYI -- Freep her heinous a good one (or two)!

[FITZ]

Walker looked around the store, which by 2:30 p.m. had about as many employees as customers.

Yes -- that "after church crowd" thing was very funny. To count 200, they probably added in all the store customers who would have come if Hillary wasn't there plus the employees.

[FreedomPoster]

I'm in GA, can't get up to Columbia on short notice.

[Fraulein]

She's still on her book tour?

[FreedomPoster]

Looking at the SC board, it looks like they've got a threesome covering the event.

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[sticker]

"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."

This explains the numbers that this POS has sold. The hitlery zombies are buying mupltiple copies and then trying to inflect the virus on everyone else. Of course, I am sure the this book is popular at the furry legs contests.

[MeekOneGOP]

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