Biggest foe for a President Obama is yet to come

Sen. Barack Obama's biggest problem when he gets to the White House will not be Republicans and conservatives, but an economy plummeting toward depression and deflation and a bunch of supposed liberals who really aren't.

Democratic leadership in the House and Senate have passed a bailout for fatcats on Wall Street. While these politicos claim to be progressives and liberals, they get the majority of campaign contributions from Wall Street.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. John Kerry lost the most of all congresspeople financially when AIG's stock fell. So it's no surprise that one Democrat implemented a bailout of Wall Street and the other voted for it in the Senate. These supposed liberals are no agents of the kind of change Obama is seeking.

Locally, Congressman Jim Cooper likes to play like a progessive, but he has supported a punitive Bush administration crackdown of undocumented human beings in Nashville. He did not even speak up in protest when a pregnant Hispanic woman was tortured before and after labor with the birth of her fourth child -- an American citizen.

Cooper's time in Congress has been incredibly unremarkable. The only waves he stirs amid business as usual in Washington is in challenging Rural Electric Cooperatives -- which are not even in his congressional district.

When it comes to helping his district with earmarks/appropriations, he takes none for Nashville. Meanwhile, the need for this money grows each day, particularly with programs for the most vulnerable of constituents. Cooper also has stayed silent while a fellow Democrat, Gov. Phil Bredesen, has gutted TennCare. Yet for some reason, the local news media gives him a free ride.

Cooper, however, was an early supporter of Obama. He has cited himself as a possible Cabinet member in an Obama administration. Bredesen cited himself as a potential VP nominee. Thankfully, Obama did not entertain such a silly notion. Hopefully, he'll do the same with Congressman Easter Bunny's dreams.

I feel bad for Obama. He will face with an unprecedented economic crisis. The Great Depression will not compare psychologically to the impact to come -- first in people who have never been accustomed to any hard times in their lives and globally as America falls from being an economic superpower.

China's continued rise will be terrifying. No longer will America be able to take military action without considering a Chinese response, even in this hemisphere. China can ruin America militarily -- or economically since it holds more a trillion dollars in our government's debt.

Once Obama beats the candidate of Republicans and conservatives Nov. 4, he'll still have to face his most difficult opponent -- politicians claiming to be liberals.