“The question is who in this crisis looked more presidential, calm and unflustered. It wasn’t John McCain,” ABC News’ Sam Donaldson said Sunday on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.”

“His talking points have gotten all mixed up and I think the question of age is back on the table,” Donaldson said. McCain is 72 while Obama is 47.

About 40 people have been killed in the Somali capital, mostly when shells were fired on the busy Bakara market.

Witnesses say Ethiopian Woyanne troops fired mortars after insurgents launched simultaneous attacks on the two main African Union peacekeeping bases. More on BBC:Carnage in Somali market shelling