Netscape’s founder had a chance to sit down with the candidate early last year and chat about technology and other issues. Andreessen came away impressed.

Marc Andreessen prefers not to have politics part of his blogging at Pmarca.com, but his serendipitous meeting with the only candidate who now stands between Hillary Clinton and her coronation as Democratic Presidential candidate impressed the guy who worked on the earliest graphical web browser, Mosaic.

He said the meeting with Obama came about through a friend with connections in politics and high tech. Here’s what the guy who helped bring along Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of electronic communication to the masses thought of Senator Barack Obama:

I carried four distinct impressions away from our meeting with Senator Obama.

First, this is a normal guy.

Second, this is a smart guy.

Third, this is not a radical.

Fourth, this is the first credible post-Baby Boomer presidential candidate.

Andreessen goes in-depth on each impression, and there are all kinds of positives he has to express. It’s worth a read for the technology-minded out there.