German Chancellor Merkel: Obama Is "Well-Equipped — Physically, Mentally And Politically"

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is an admirer of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama -- even though she has not yet met him in person.

Asked at a news conference on Wednesday what she thought of Obama, Merkel responded: "I would say that he is well-equipped -- physically, mentally and politically."