Obama: ‘I Have Been Steadier’

Barack Obama touted his equanimity when asked whether he was more prepared than John McCain to be president.

“We’ve had, over the last couple of months, I think, an interesting series of tests. And I think that I have been steadier,” Obama said Thursday on CBS. “I think my advisers and my team and my organization, what we’ve built, has performed with the kind of calm resolve and deliberation that the White House needs right now. Any president is going to be tested by the enormity of the challenges that we face.”

Obama also swiped at the tone of McCain’s campaign, saying that there isn’t “equivalence” between his campaign’s tactics and the McCain campaign’s.
“Witness some of the comments that have been made just over the last several months, these last several weeks: ‘He’s socialistic,’ you know,” Obama said. “‘Pals around with terrorists.’ I mean, just the kinds of stuff that — that I can’t imagine saying about an opponent of mine.”