So I got a chance to attend the Elizabeth Edwards book signing last night in New York for her new best-seller
Saving Graces. It was awesome. I'll explain the title of this diary at the end.
She spoke for a few minutes and read three passages from the book, then took a lot of questions from the audience. Just about everyone that attended lined up to get a signed copy and a minute with our favorite Elizabeth.
Oh yeah - Senator Edwards showed up too straight from Uganda, but he didn't speak. He mentioned Karl Rove, but he didn't speak.
Mrs. Edwards will be in Washington, DC tomorrow night on the next stop for her book tour. If you're a fan like me then you should check it out if you can. I also will be posting a full vlog diary in the morning if you're interested and I know you are. I've got about 40 plus minutes of tape and it's good. Real good.
Here's a teaser clip.
Video: The Cure for Politics (2:12)
A young woman comes up to get her book signed and asks, "why don't you run for office?" Naturally, Mrs. Edwards gets this question a lot since she is Elizabeth Edwards after all. Her response is usually something like, "I got it out of my system in high school." Here it is on tape. I guess Prom could do that to a person. Also in this clip are two cancer survivors who came out to see her last night as well.
Tomorrow night in DC:
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Washington, DC
7:00 PM
Olsson's Books & Records
418 7th St., NW (between D & E Streets)
Washington, DC 20004
202-638-7610
The rest of the tour dates can be found here. Looks like there are lots of stops and more being added daily. So far the tour is all over NC; Iowa of course; Georgia twice; Minnesota twice; Chicago; all over California; Seattle and interestingly enough she's adding dates for Military bases. They've got her at Andrews Air Force base on Friday and that's a new one. They also have her going to a base out in Tacoma for the Seattle appearance.
She is after all the daughter of a career Naval Aviator, Vince Anania.
So why the title? Well - after the remarks I was close by most of the time that she sat and signed the books for us since I taped some of that stuff. The praise that I overheard from the attendees was effusive and very unpolitical, the teaser clip notwithstanding, because as we all know - everybody loves Elizabeth.
Anyway, as the line wore down at the end of the night after about an hour and a half, one of the last people came up to her and said the word delicious. I didn't hear the whole bit, but Mrs. Edwards replied that she always wanted to be called "delicious" but had never been as yet.
So Mrs. Edwards - I think you're delicious too and I thank you for such an honest and insightful book. It's a tremendous contribution.