Obama is on reddit answering questions for real

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Well yes, Obama writing in mandatory adoption and taking state control of church to use as child rearing services in lieu of back taxes would be political history

[Bells]

I hear Obama has an Autographed version of the first Atomic Robo comic!

Also this

[–]gobearss 933 points 5 hours ago
How do you balance family life and hobbies with, well, being the POTUS?


[–]PresidentObamaObama[S] 1965 points 4 hours ago
It's hard - truthfully the main thing other than work is just making sure that I'm spending enough time with michelle and the girls. The big advantage I have is that I live above the store - so I have no commute! So we make sure that when I'm in DC I never miss dinner with them at 6:30 pm - even if I have to go back down to the Oval for work later in the evening. I do work out every morning as well, and try to get a basketball or golf game in on the weekends just to get out of the bubble. Speaking of balance, though, I need to get going so I'm back in DC in time for dinner. But I want to thank everybody at reddit for participating - this is an example of how technology and the internet can empower the sorts of conversations that strengthen our democracy over the long run. AND REMEMBER TO VOTE IN NOVEMBER - if you need to know how to register, go to Gottaregister.com. By the way, if you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!


[–]Camusforyou 761 points 3 hours ago
The meme has become self aware.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Aldurin

Obama goes to NPF would probably make political history.

Then I'd go change my alias and reroute my IP address.

Too late for that, my man.

Originally Posted by Barack Obama

This is the change I promised America.

[shiney]

Too bad a lot of the responses were cookie-cutter campaign statements, but that said, this was a campaign event so I can't say I'm surprised. At least it seemed like randoms got their questions answered and not necessarily just astroturfs.

[Locke cole]

Wait, was he saying that they're thinking of a manned mission to a asteroid?

[Bells]

Probably just a talking point... but they did land on mars during his administration. If Curiosity pays off, a manned mission would be the next step anyway... considering that Curiosity's mission was a 2 year deal, a manned mission would likely be under his second term...

[Nique]

Originally Posted by shiney

Too bad a lot of the responses were cookie-cutter campaign statements, but that said, this was a campaign event so I can't say I'm surprised. At least it seemed like randoms got their questions answered and not necessarily just astroturfs.

This is sort of what I was thinking. Like, obviously anything non-controversial like talking about family life and stuff is probably pretty genuine, but I doubt there's anything revealing or politically interesting at all in that thread.

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by Aldurin

Someone that leads the country must have perfect grammar. Always.

It bugged me, reading his responses, to see more or less proper comma use and abbreviation, capital letters for the first words in sentences, and the like but then a failure to capitalize proper nouns, such as Afghanistan, consistently. I mean, overall, his posts appeared to be well-written like you'd expect from an educated, literate English speaker, but they were peppered with little faults. Tthen I wondered if that was just another aspect of the fishing-for-votes vibe I got from all of this. "Hey, he makes mistakes when typing on the Intertubes like us! Hoorjayflakes!"


Still, it's pretty neat that our President sat down to answer questions somewhat in real time on Reddit, crashed the site for a little bit as a result, and even referenced his own meme.

[Sifright]

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

Still, it's pretty neat that our President sat down to answer questions somewhat in real time on Reddit, crashed the site for a little bit as a result, and even referenced his own meme.

Seems like all the questions answered were basically fluff questions, not much to write home about.

[CABAL49]

Well, it is a general policy when it comes to elections to not actually let people know your platform. You can't get criticized if people don't know what you stand for.