Obama in Senate: Star Power, But Minor Role

'Mr. Obama poked fun at himself at the Gridiron Club in 2006 with, left, his current chief strategist, David Axelrod, and his communications director, Robert Gibbs. “I’ve been very blessed,” Mr. Obama told the crowd assembled in March 2006. “Keynote speaker at the Democratic convention. The cover of Newsweek. My book made the best-seller list. I just won a Grammy for reading it on tape."

“Really, what else is there to do?” he said, his smile now broad. “Well, I guess I could pass a law or something".'

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