Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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Strebeigh births a book

Contributing Reporter
Published Friday, February 27, 2009

Barack Obama is our president and Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 is his secretary of state. That’s how things are now. But think back to just over a year ago, to the presidential primaries. Obama and Clinton were running a close and contentious race for the Democratic nomination. With a woman and an African-American man emerging as the two frontrunners, it was promising to be a historic presidential election. It seemed as if our country was finally losing its time-honored prejudices. But the amount of negativity and outright sexism in the media undermined our optimism.

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