Ali Velshi Speaks About CNN's Business Coverage, The American Job Market, And Why Barack Obama Is Stronger On The Economy Than John McCain

Senior CNN Business Correspondent Velshi Rips McCain On Economy

On Thursday, I talked to Velshi and asked him about his exchange with Zurawik, his thoughts on the coverage of the financial crisis, and which candidate he thought was stronger on the economy. He said that it's "absolutely true" that Barack Obama is stronger on the economy than John McCain and criticized McCain's inability to "come out with a cohesive message about how it is he's going to fix the economy":
Huffington Post: Can you evaluate the candidates' job creation proposals? Is one candidate stronger on the economy than the other? I know people seem to think that Obama is, but I'm not sure if that's necessarily objective.
Ali Velshi: Oh, it's absolutely true. It was sort of true the whole way along.
I'm completely stymied by how it is that John McCain continues to drop crumbs - and some of them are very smart crumbs - about what he plans to do. He did this with respect to what he wants to do with mortgages, he sort of dropped a crumb in the second debate and then somewhere along the line in a speech he said something about not penalizing people for having to withdraw money from their IRAs because they turned 70-and a half. It cannot come together as a total plan. It is quite remarkable. He's not been able to adjust in particular his health care stance.