Political Advice from the Ivory Tower

In his column today in  the Democrat and Chronicle, Mark Hare discusses the part race and gender are playing in the November presidential election.  Hare interviewed Anthea Butler, assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester, for her take on the subject. 

According to the professor,  to beat Obama Hillary needs to show more of her mothering or nuturing side. "I'd like to see her kiss a few babies,"  says Butler.

Well, it certainly worked for George Bush, didn't it?