In 2004 a little known senator by the name of Barack Obama from Illinois was beginning to make a name for himself. However, no one at that time even thought that three years later that he would make a run for the presidency. Giving the keynote address at the 2004 democratic national convention, galvanizing an often disparate gathering. From this point on, he was in the public eye and being groomed by the party for big things.
Disgruntled with how slowly the process moved in the senate, when Senate Majority Leader Reid urged him to seek the presidency, he entertained it seriously. He would go on to become the 44th president of the United States.