Texas Town Disturbed by Sheehan, Protests

"I wish she'd stay away. Crawford's a Republican town, and she's a dumb Democrat," Westerfield, a lifelong Crawford resident, said Friday while sitting on a bench outside a gas station on Main Street.

The man saying this is 83 years old. People such as this make me doubt the supposed correlation between age and wisdom. It reminds me instead of the saying about the royal Bourbons in pre-revolutionary France: "They learned nothing, and they forgot nothing."