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Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by arrrg »

noobface wrote: post #227
arrrg wrote: post #211

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And? I’m really not sure what you expect. The President has a busy schedule, plus (as the guy running for office) enough money to hire people to do stuff for him. We all nearly always plan what we say and do. The stakes might not be quite so high for us most of the time – but the principle behind it is the same. The only difference is that the President can afford people whom he can delegate some of that planning to.…

If the Woody Harrelson AMA has taught us anything. Do a legit AMA or don't do one at all. Although I'm surprised more people aren't calling him out on completely dodging the questions.

No, from that we can only learn to plan your AMA better. His PR people sucked, that’s all.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by arrrg »

panacea wrote: post #205
wamatt wrote: post #196

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Yeah it's mostly sanitized, but I'm still impressed though at his overall level of savvyness, deciding to do a Reddit AMA at all. Come on what did we expect? A heart to heart with a unicorn , err... I mean honest politician? :p He seems to be getting credit and generating overall positive impact, regardless of the depth of his answers.

Pretty naive to think the President is the savvy one deciding to do a reddit AMA, and not one of the many, many people in his reelection campaign PR team. Anyway, it reminded me that the news of his first election was the highest voted submission in reddit's history at the time.

So he is good at managing you say?

I mean, that’s one of the most important traits of any President: The ability to hire the right people and delegate. You cannot administrate a country alone, it would be truly sad and pathetic if every good idea he ever decided on implementing came only from himself.

You are naive and have a very simplistic view of the President’s role if you think this is totally worthless if it wasn’t his own idea.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by ck2 »

I'm not sure if I am more impressed the President did that, or how people seem to be on their best behavior in there.

Either that or every moderator on all of Reddit was called to the thread.

Is it true the load took down Reddit for a little while?

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by rockyleal »

jbooth wrote: post #201
fr0sty wrote: post #176

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He answered questions on these topics: 1. Space Race 2. Internet Freedom 3. Favorite Basketball Player 4. Small-Business tax breaks 5. First Activity on Nov 7 6. Most Difficult Decision 7. Money in Politics 8. White House Beer Recipe 9. Jobs 10. Work/Life Balance Hard hitting stuff there

What would you have asked? Those are all pretty topical this particular election season. Any 10 questions seem inadequate for a president, no? Also, he brought up Afghanistan on his own in response to the 'hardest decision' question. That's not exactly a fluff answer.

Bradley Fucking Manning?

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by waqf »

mathieuh wrote: post #41
logjam wrote: post #36

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I don't understand how a question with an unsupported/uncited premise equivalent to "do you still beat your wife?" constitutes "an excellent question".

He literally has a button which kills people.

Any button kills people if you throw it hard enough.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by heyadayo »

1. Check out the up and down votes on reddit! 158,753 up votes 152,631 down votes with a net difference of 6k or so positive. That's crazy! Are those partisan lines or something? Why wouldn't everyone on reddit be excited to see the president?

2. Why has this had such low rank on HN given the number of votes? It had 200+ in the first hour and never seemed to get in the top 3.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by twmb »

nikcub wrote: post #226
untog wrote: post #156

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Is it? It appears that his AMA was online for maybe 45 minutes. How long should we expect the President of the United States to stay on the site for? Presumably has has other things to do.

> Presumably has has other things to do. I also have things to do and manage to fit in at least a couple of hours a day on reddit

Presumably, what you have to do isn't as important nor as time demanding as what the president has to do.

Re: AMA with Barack Obama

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Post by elliottcarlson »

timsally wrote: post #215
boredguy8 wrote: post #206

I was really hoping he'd respond to the law school student along these lines: "Well, where in your class did you graduate, and why did you think you'd have job prospects as a lawyer? Unless you're in the top 1/3 of your class at a good law school or top 5% of your class at an OK school, getting a job is hard in today's market. Part of the reason law school (and school in general) is so expensive is because we've remo…

Yup. I don't have much sympathy for him, considering he took out $160,000 in debt with only a 50/50 shot to pay it back (that's your chance to get a high enough salary coming out of a top law school to service that debt, outside of Harvard and Yale). His poor decision is further compounded by the fact that he decided to go to law school after the legal market crashed in 2008 and people started to realize how ridiculo…

I don't disagree with a single thing you said - but I do find some irony in the fact that this community for the most part is centered around startups - some taking huge risks with either bootstrapped money, or angel money - and the failure rate is often estimated between 30% to 40%.
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