Tom Paine reports:
As we head into a critical political year, a new compelling book has laid out the road map for progressive victory: Bob Creamer's "Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight. How Progressive Can Win."
Creamer has been on the front lines, fighting the forces of conservatism, for four decades. And as Sen. Richard Durbin said: "Bob Creamer takes his readers from values to votes with practical tactics and insight gathered over decades of experience. This book is for players...spectators need not apply.”
Progressive leaders from across the country are praising his book. For example:
Senator Sherrod Brown: “If every activist in America read Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight, we could change our country. This book will help bring on the New Progressive Era. It's that good.”
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson: “It’s a must read for anyone who is passionate about changing America – now.”
MoveOn.org founder Wes Boyd: "Bob Creamer gives citizens an owners manual for Democracy."
And Campaign for America's Future own Roger Hickey says: “It lays out a blueprint -- and an optimistic attitude -- for taking our country back. Everyone who cares about America's future
Tom Roeser explains who Robert Creamer is:
Robert Creamer, the husband of U. S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill) who was sentenced to jail for running a community group and paying himself big bucks while banks held the bag, has been teaching a group of young (mostly) volunteers for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, I am exclusively revealing today.
Nothing wrong with Creamer earning a living. Indeed not long ago he surfaced as a registered lobbyist working against the Senate confirmation of UN ambassador John Bolton, paid by the George Soros-funded “Open Society Policy Center.” But the idea of a convicted felon who kited checks lecturing the supposedly idealistic Obama campaign on how to raise money and get elected is a bit much.
Creamer taught at “Camp Obama,” a week-long summer camp last month held at the presidential candidate’s office in Chicago for campaign interns and volunteers-just a few blocks away from the federal court where on August 31, 2005 he pleaded guilty to charges of bank fraud and failure to pay federal taxes…on charges brought by U. S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. He admitted in his 18-page signed plea agreement that he wrote checks on accounts that lacked funds and did so repeatedly as he moved money from one account to another in three banks. He had a multiple group of organizations that received money, the best known being the “Illinois Public Action Council” a left-wing group on which his wife, Jan Schakowsky, was a board member while the manipulating was going on. She was already in Congress when he pleaded guilty; she was not charged.
Creamer’s retention to instruct the Obama for President campaign is probably the most revelatory hint that the hopeful, idealistic, whimsical message floated by the candidate is mere vapor obscuring a cynical operation…unless, of course, the Obama people had no idea of Creamer or what his past represents.
In Illinois, virtually anything goes in politics.
