“Don,” the focus shifts to me. “What do you think of her answer?”

What? Do they want me to criticize her strategy? In front of her? Is this how this is going to go?

Often I’m reminded of this quote from Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/  Are full of passionate intensity.”

The smart people will ponder and contemplate and collect information and second guess themselves and hold their tongues while the stupid people dominate the public conversation.