Obama addresses Biden 'tested' comments

From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones RICHMOND, Va. -- In his first full press conference in nearly a month, Obama said he was pleased with President Bush's decision to convene an international meeting to address the global financial crisis. He also responded to questions about his running mate Joe Biden 's recent statement that if elected, the Democrat would be "tested" by an international crisis within the first six months of his presidency. The financial meeting -- the kind of meeting Obama said he had called for in September -- is set for mid-November, but Obama said he did not want to get ahead of himself by discussing his possible participation. "Even though the election will have taken place and we will have a new president elect, we are still going to have one president at a time until January 20th when the new president is sworn in, so there is always a transition period – I don’t want to get too much ahead of ourselves," he said, adding that his economic team was in regular contact ... (link)