On the Podium with Carly Fiorina

[Valin]

National Review/The Corner:

Arthur L. Herman

September 24, 2015

 

We met at the foot of the stairs at the Anderson Sports Center at The Citadel, a few minutes before our event was supposed to begin. A phalanx of both local and national media was standing behind her—reporters, cameras, microphones all wavering uncertainly in the noontime Charleston sun.

 

Carly Fiorina stuck out her hand and I took it.

 

“Madame President,” I said, and then I pretended to be flustered. “I’m sorry, a natural slip.”

 

She threw back her head and laughed. No sense of humor, people were saying about her. I certainly didn’t think so: anyone who laughs at one of my jokes clearly has a sharp, not to mention sophisticated, sense of humor. Or perhaps she sensed I believed that, and was playing along. Either way, Carly Fiorina was already scoring high on my IQ test for politicians.

 

All this was last Tuesday the 22nd , as Fiorina and I met for a town hall meeting sponsored by Americans for Peace Prosperity and Security. That’s a group organized by my friend and Hudson Institute colleague Mike Rogers to encourage presidential candidates in this 2016 election season to speak about and ask questions about American foreign and defense policy in front of a public audience. Fiorina was there to address issues which President Obama has made matters of urgent worry to millions of voters: China, ISIS, Iran, Russia, genocide against Christians in the Middle East, even immigration to America as a serious national security threat. I was there to moderate, and to throw out the first questions rather the way someone throws out the first pitch at a baseball game—and which Carly Fiorina proceeded to hit out of the park.

 

(Snip)

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HM6sZFI6QQ

 

(Note. Audio Is Not The Best, At The Start)