Obama does reddit AMA

annnnnnd it just broke reddit. but once i can read it, it should be interesting.

oh my fucking god..

I don't agree with him about everything, but mega-internet respects for rolling on up into REDDIT!

i know it's part of the election hype train, but fucking mad respect all the same, the man is in touch with the zeitgeist. i mean, could you imagine dubya doing something like this?

respect for doing this, but it's a shame the questions he's answered so far have had such lame canned answers. i guess that's his job though.

Haha, George would never do this. Think he even knows what reddit is?

Why is he avoiding the "war on drugs" questions?

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:09 PM, luke viia said:

respect for doing this, but it's a shame the questions he's answered so far have had such lame canned answers. i guess that's his job though.

i had 200 comments loaded and made the mistake of clicking 'view 500' before i read anything. back to the 'Ow!' screen i went :(

He really sounds like a nice guy, from the opening post. But that could've been the marketing department as well. (Not to be too cynic though, it's really kinda nice.)

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:08 PM, kaini said:

lol

edit: "President OP" hahaha

if the main ama page is still slow for you, but you want to know wtf obama is typing up: http://www.reddit.com/user/PresidentObama

you can pretty much tell what the questions were from his answers

Meh Ill read it later.

Mr. President what is your plan to fix the economy?

: Sorry no questions about politics i'm here to promote Rampage.

"an asteroid, mr. president"

"don't correct the president, neckbeard."

lol

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:32 PM, YO303 said:

Mr. President what is your plan to fix the economy?

 

: Sorry no questions about politics i'm here to promote Rampage.

RAMPART

woody harrelson, nevar forget.

that was one of my favourite things that ever happened on the internet.

might as well be reading a conversation with CleverBot.

tell me how you feel about CONVERSATION WITH CLEVERBOT, PHILIP J FRY

edit: i still haven't got to fucking read anything.

pretty much, smetty. if you gave a smart enough bot enough presidential speeches to rummage through, i'm sure it could imitate any presidents' views you asked it to.

i liked that robot president from fallout 3, sucks he was such an asshole.

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:35 PM, kaini said:

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:32 PM, YO303 said:

Mr. President what is your plan to fix the economy?

 

: Sorry no questions about politics i'm here to promote Rampage.

 

RAMPART

 

woody harrelson, nevar forget.

that was one of my favourite things that ever happened on the internet.

Yeah sorry i only cared about that movie the 20 minutes i spent reading that AMA

Knowing Reddit the top question will be about weed.

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:37 PM, luke viia said:

pretty much, smetty. if you gave a smart enough bot enough presidential speeches to rummage through, i'm sure it could imitate any presidents' views you asked it to.

 

i liked that robot president from fallout 3, sucks he was such an asshole.

didn't he want you to destroy him in the end because of what the enclave had become?

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:39 PM, YO303 said:

Knowing Reddit the top question will be about weed.

in the 30 seconds i got to read stuff before i fucked it up, the top question was about space exploration. reddit's big enough that the annoying neckbeard denizens of r/trees will be downvoted mercilessly. i could see some atheism questions gaining significant traction though. r/atheism are another bunch of annoying cunts.

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:12 PM, fiznuthian said:

Why is he avoiding the "war on drugs" questions?

why do you think he's avoiding the war on drugs questions? the answer to this is not hard to figure out.

this is some advisors idea. if mitt romney had the advisor then he'd be on reddit instead he is in a storm

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:39 PM, Hoodie said:

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:37 PM, luke viia said:

pretty much, smetty. if you gave a smart enough bot enough presidential speeches to rummage through, i'm sure it could imitate any presidents' views you asked it to.

 

i liked that robot president from fallout 3, sucks he was such an asshole.

 

didn't he want you to destroy him in the end because of what the enclave had become?

i don't remember honestly. i think i talked him into killing himself.

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:41 PM, kaini said:

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:39 PM, YO303 said:

Knowing Reddit the top question will be about weed.

 

in the 30 seconds i got to read stuff before i fucked it up, the top question was about space exploration. reddit's big enough that the annoying neckbeard denizens of r/trees will be downvoted mercilessly. i could see some atheism questions gaining significant traction though. r/atheism are another bunch of annoying cunts.

When Al Gore did an AMA the top question was about weed, when he was asked the question i bet he thought "ugh the internet is just stoners", you could see it in his face.

I just hope they use this opportunity to ask decent questions (even though the answers will probably be bullshit)

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:32 PM, luke viia said:

"an asteroid, mr. president"

"don't correct the president, neckbeard."

 

lol

haha great. But you can say a asteroid, technically, if you use the "long" a that sounds different from the a in asteroid.

/neckbeard

It's a nice initiative and probably good for is image, but from what I see there's nothing new really. Maybe he should just answer some questions with lmgtfy...

  obama said:

By the way, if you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:41 PM, kaini said:

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:39 PM, YO303 said:

Knowing Reddit the top question will be about weed.

 

in the 30 seconds i got to read stuff before i fucked it up, the top question was about space exploration. reddit's big enough that the annoying neckbeard denizens of r/trees will be downvoted mercilessly. i could see some atheism questions gaining significant traction though. r/atheism are another bunch of annoying cunts.

 

  On 8/29/2012 at 11:12 PM, fiznuthian said:

Why is he avoiding the "war on drugs" questions?

 

why do you think he's avoiding the war on drugs questions? the answer to this is not hard to figure out.

Speaking publicly about it would potentially hurt his run for next term..

But whether you think smoking weed is the dumbest shit or not, in the USA lots of those dumb stoners are being treated like criminals and getting butt-fucked by our justice system. Are they really doing anything criminal by toking, getting lazy, and eating too much?