An ex-con makes almost 60 visits to the White House, I can see why Obama fought to keep the logs hidden
Robert Creamer
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While in prison, he wrote a book titled "How Progressives Can Win."
Obama's chief adviser, David Axelrod, touted Creamer's book as providing "a blueprint for future victories," including on health care.
His book was endorsed by other leading Democrats and by Andy Stern, a close ally of the president who as head of the Service Employees International Union had visited the White House more than any other individual.
"The Manchurian President" found that during Creamer's trial, more than 200 people provided letters of support to the court on Creamer's behalf, including Axelrod and Carol Browner, who is now Obama's energy czar.
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A section of Creamer's book, titled
"Progressive Agenda for Structural Change,"
laid out the blueprint for a national health-care plan and recommended the president create a "national consensus that the health-care system is in crisis."
Other Creamer recommendations include:
-"We must create a national consensus that health care is a right, not a commodity; and that government must guarantee that right."
-"Our messaging program over the next two years should focus heavily on reducing the credibility of the health-insurance industry and focusing on the failure of private health insurance."
-We need not agree in advance on the components of a plan, but we must foster a process that can ultimately yield consensus."
"We must focus especially on the mobilization of the labor movement and the faith community."
Creamer's plan, written in 2006, explicitly proposed that it be carried out in 2009, once a "progressive Democrat is elected President" and once Democrats could count on 60 votes in the Senate.