Barack Obama, a leader for a changing world.

This is for an old friend who is a McCain supporter:

McCain lived past his time and quite frankly his time on this earth (or mental comprehension of it) is coming to an end given his age and his health history.  This might be cold to say but it is a stark reality for anyone living in their seventies with such a traumatic past.

This election is about the future and how we deal with an international economy with technology changing our society exponentially.

No one can know what the future brings, but a leader who looks to the future and understands the youth will do much better than a person who lives in the past.

McCain does not even know how to use a computer. How can he comprehend how our society is changing which really just begun a little over ten years ago when the Internet went mainstream along with global interaction that has ensued?

Obama might not have DC experience, but he understands, has the vision and will to meet the unknown challenges we are going to face. He has an international understanding through his family and the experience he faced as a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural individual.

I always hear that this election is historic since Obama will be the first Black President when he wins.

Now sub-consciously, many of us may think of the typical African-American experience especially in combination with him being from Chicago during his adult life, which is not the case.

In fact, he is more multi-faceted than just being black. His heritage is African and Midwest White being raised in the Pacific Islander environment of Hawaii with his Midwest grandparents along with a Step-father and his sister with Indonesian heritage and culture.

He is the Democratic nominee because he used technology as we should be using it. He brought his campaign to everyone he could from the ground  up, not just targeting perennial voters in traditional one way communication methods of the past.

His campaign in itself shows that he can lead and overcome tremendous odds to be successful from a new way thinking and understanding.

Leaders don’t need experience, they need the will, the passion and understanding to envision a better world and move towards that vision. They can surround themselves with the brightest and best thinking individuals with experience, in the end they must make a decision to lead our country into the future.

Barack Obama is that leader.

Obama 183 to go…Clinton should do what is right!

My fellow Democrats.

It’s time to bring Unity to our Party.

Last night, Obama proved that he is going to be our candidate.

Here’s the math of where we stand …

There are only six contests remaining on the Democratic primary calendar and only 217 pledged delegates left to be awarded. Only 7% of the pledged delegates remain on the table.

There are 253 remaining undeclared superdelegates, for a total of 470 delegates left to be awarded.

With North Carolina and Indiana complete, Barack Obama has 1842 delegates and only needs 183 total delegates to capture the Democratic nomination at 2025.

Conversely, Senator Clinton has 1686 delegates and needs 339 delegates to reach the Democratic nomination at 2025.

Mathematically speaking there is no way that Clinton can win based on the numbers and compared to the history of recent outcomes.

Yet, Obama can win if the remaining primary contests remain as they are and the Superdelegates go with the nominee with the most numbers.

This contest is over, Senator Clinton needs to do what’s best and withdraw since there is NO possible way she can win the Democratic nomination.

It also doesn’t help her cause that she has lent herself 6.4 million dollars in the past month to keep on campaigning

She can be a leader and begin to bring our Party together so that we can win in November!

Louis R Reyes