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Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win Paperback – November 20, 2007

by Robert Creamer (Author)
3.1 out of 5 stars 90 customer reviews
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  • Paperback: 618 pages
  • Publisher: Seven Locks Press (November 20, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0979585295
  • ISBN-13: 978-0979585296
  • Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (90 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,221 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 starsInteresting, but also odd and irritating
By L. F. Smith VINE VOICE on March 13, 2008
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This is an interesting book that will probably be very useful to its target audience: "...young people who are considering a life-long commitment to the progressive cause, and for anyone who is curious about how voters make political decisions and what is involved in organizing for change." However, it is also an odd book, to the point of being irritating.

Creamer has, in effect, produced a combination of two books. One is a how-to manual for progressive activists; the other is a rationale for progressive policies and a call to arms for those who favor those policies. Unfortunately, the combination doesn't work particularly well here. One would expect the rationale to come before the how-to manual, but for some unfathomable reason, Creamer does it the other way around. In addition, he really needs some editorial help; the copy design of the book is grotesque, with weird indentation patterns, combinations of bulleted and numbered lists, willy-nilly bold-facing, italics, and underlining-- and sometimes all three together-- and odd rhetorical jumps from chapter to chapter. Finally, the book is too long, at 600+ pages.

In short, this is a book you have to really want to read, or you just won't finish it. That may or may not be a bad thing, depending on your point of view.

Creamer is an unapologetic advocate for the progressive cause. (By the way, as he explains about 500 pages into the book, "progressive" means "liberal"; the "radical conservatives" have successfully made "liberal" a pejorative, so the liberals can't use that word any more.) He's spent his life as a political organizer, and he uses that experience to illustrate the points he's making with interesting anecdotes.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsThe Socialist Coalition's playbook
By K. GROENHAGEN on November 8, 2013
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I believe this book should be a must-read for CONSERVATIVES/CONSTITUTIONALISTS. Creamer’s 628-page book is full of lies, misrepresentations, and distortions. It is also poorly edited. For example, he refers to Harold Washington, the late mayor of Chicago, as “Herald Washington,” and notes that our closest animal relatives are “guerrillas, chimpanzees and the baboons of Africa.” Nevertheless, Creamer’s book is an invaluable resource for constitutionalists.

Creamer has spent more than four decades in community organizing. His “first serious issue campaign involved pollution and the legendary community organizer Saul Alinsky.” He later joined Illinois Public Action, “the progressive coalition,” which he directed for many years. While at Illinois Public Action, Creamer met and married DSAer Jan Schakowsky. Schakowsky is currently a U.S. representative and a vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). CPC is aligned with Democratic Socialists of America, which, in turn, is part of the Socialist International. The roots of the Socialist International go all the way back to Karl Marx.

The first few pages of Stand Up Straight! include words of praise from many individuals representing groups that make up the Socialist Coalition. These individuals include John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, Heather Booth and Jackie Kendall of the Midwest Academy, Wes Boyd of MoveOn.org, Chuck Loveless and John Cameron of AFSCME, Greg Gazzullo of the Gamaliel Foundation, Roger Hickey and Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future, David Axelrod, Jeff Blum and William McNary of USAction, CPC members Reps. Jim McGovern John Lewis, Andy Stern of SEIU, and Miles Rapoport of Demos.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsImportant for Conservatives to Read, even though it is Unreadable
By David M. Dougherty VINE VOICE on April 9, 2014
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This is the modern Progressive Bible, and as I recommend Christians read the Koran, so too I recommend Conservatives to read this work. But it is not easy -- this book is very, very poorly written, and only a mother believing her 15 year-old son had written it could love it. This work is a monument to the fuzzy thinking of Progressives, and Progressives should buy up all the copies and burn them.

First, the work is encyclopedic, yet there is no index. If the reader wants to see what the author, a convicted felon, has to say about the role of religion, well, I guess you will just have to read all 575 pages. And frankly, most of the facts the author presents are simply wrong, from the Confederates losing 60% of the men in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, to defining traditional American values as "progressive" and the battle being between them and the "values of radical conservatives." Wow! With that statement on page 349, the Progressives are defenders of traditional values -- you know, the ones the Progressives are always belittling and trying to change, but which those radical people who believe in defending the Constitution, individual liberty, and all those outmoded concepts, are apparently (in the author's opinion) trying to eliminate.

In fact, probably most of the book is a compendium of lies, and the value in reading is to understand the strategy of the Progressives to ALWAYS frame the debate in words to their own advantage, even if the characterization of your opponent's position is an outright lie. Lying doesn't matter -- the end justifies the means. Gee, where have I heard that before?Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsBob Creamer should be in Jail.

Bob Creamer is a thug and a criminal. He has spent time in jail and his wife is a Congresswoman who is part of the vile Clinton leftist One World plan. Read more

Published 4 days ago by J. M. Preston
1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

Basically, thev Author believes in cheating - as proven by his real life activities

Published 18 days ago by Amazon Customer
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I thought it was going to be a book about helping my posture. Instead it was more relative to a book of sex positions, it teaches you how to F$@# people.

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5.0 out of 5 starsForget about your mother, listen to Bob Creamer

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Published 23 days ago by Steven
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Published 24 days ago by CK
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Essential.

Published 18 months ago by Buzz Fugazi
1.0 out of 5 starsNot sure if he's trying to be series or funny.

Not sure if he's trying to be series or funny. This book is really more of a wish list of how to twist thing around to try to get people to believe their schtick. Read more

Published on September 15, 2014 by Dakar
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

do not know

Published on August 6, 2014 by Pafka
1.0 out of 5 starsDoesn't deserve any stars

What a ridiculous book, what a ridiculous premise. The author seems to think that he's entitled to a cut of the profits made by those who work harder, work smarter and take risks. Read more

Published on December 9, 2013 by caroline
5.0 out of 5 starsStand up straight

I was interested in the Progressive movement and what we are facing today in my country. Found it to apply step by step to where we are headed.

Published on November 19, 2013 by Pam B.

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