Barack Obama, a no-name politician only 4 short years ago, is the new pop sensation, the John F. Kennedy, the Adlai Stevenson, the dream boy of starry-eyed liberals. But all that is nothing unless he wins Pennsylvania. Lose PA and the tens of millions of dollars goes to waste. Lose PA and November matters nothing, because he’ll never get there.

Obama is at a desperate point in his campaign. A near breaking point.

And he insists on talking about the “math”.

A math that sounds eerily familiar for analysts doing the math for Clinton only a few months ago. If there is one thing that this election is not depending on, it’s math. Math doesn’t explain how Huckabee won Iowa and lost big. Math doesn’t explain how Romney accumulated delegates sooner but was outplayed by McCain. Math doesn’t explain how Obama rebounded from a delegate deficit only a few months ago.

And math doesn’t explain how Obama swept 11 states in a row but lost the crucial states of Ohio and Texas despite outspending Clinton $13.5 million to $7.3 million in those two states alone.

Math says it doesn’t matter. Because Obama still has more delegates. And Hillary only net-gained 4 yesterday.

What Obama needs to do is more than analyze the math and send stupid emails out entitled “The Math” that only reinforce what we’ve all suspected, that Obama’s math is flawed. To win this race, he must focus on his own person and show the world that his change is believable. He must stop stooping to return every attack Hillary throws his way. He must be more creative in the way his change works out in underprivileged society.

Obama has a decision to make. He can continue to spend millions of dollars in personal donations on fruitless smearing. He can continue to run a race based on math. He can continue his hopes of becoming elected to Commander-in-chief by playing the racial card.

Or he can show us a new kind of politics he once talked about in a less pressured day. A politics above smearing and corporate bribing. Change we can believe in.

What will it be, Mr. Barack Obama?