Slog

News & Arts

Line Out

Music & the City
at Night

« Tonight at Central Cinema: The Hott… | Reminder: Impromptu SLOGPAX Nerd Me… »

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

2012 All of Barack Obama's Reddit AMA Answers In One Place

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:45 PM

The president crashed Reddit today. You can find all his answers in one place right here.

In case you're wondering whether this is a big deal at all, the answer is yes. This is something like Bill Clinton doing his forum on MTV, only instead of dumb questions about his choice of underwear, the president took some interesting questions about issues that matter to people. I hope Reddit AMAs become a regular part of campaigning. You can still ignore the questions you want to ignore, but Reddit's upvote system provides a pretty good sense of when users feel like a question or answer is bullshit. Go read the exchanges.

I do have to say I'm a little disappointed that the president, who at one time considered himself to be a writer first and foremost, doesn't capitalize proper nouns and has their/they're/there issues. But this was a good thing to do. It's a minor piece of campaigning history that may well influence the future of campaigns for the better.

FacebookShare

Comments (11) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

Regarding the capitalization and homonyms, what do you think are the chances he was typing for himself?

And - without speculating about Obama in this instance - it's a format in which it'd be very easy for a spokesperson to answer for the President or Candidate; even a robot, identifying key words in the wqestion and selecting a pre-programmed answer, could do half the work, though proofing by a human would help.

Posted by Warren Terra on August 29, 2012 at 2:56 PM

I SAW IT ON REDDIT ALREADY, WAY TO BE SLOW, LOL.

Posted by Zebes

on August 29, 2012 at 3:14 PM

The grammar and capitalization issues will be fodder for the idiots who think Bill Ayers ghostwrote Obama's books.

Posted by Joe Glibmoron on August 29, 2012 at 3:42 PM

I am excited that he will be releasing the White House home-brewed beer recipes. Planning on making one for election night.

Posted by minderbender on August 29, 2012 at 4:01 PM

PartyInYourMouth, I'll take you're question second.

Posted by urban_copilot on August 29, 2012 at 4:25 PM

Ugh, disappointing he's supporting a site that hosts sections for "jail bait" and "up skirt" photos. I'm pretty sure the list of registered Reddit users is just a combined list of registered sex offenders and Ron Paul donors.

Posted by raku on August 29, 2012 at 5:18 PM