(News One) — Barack Obama took the oath of office as a United States senator on January 4, 2005, and promptly began running for president. Very quickly, he began using the peculiar kind of celebrity that comes with being a senator to introduce himself to Washington, to a new generation of political power brokers, and, more broadly, to the American people.”He was running for president even as he was still getting lost in the Capitol’s corridors,” the New York Times noted.
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