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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.


> Pretty naive to think the President is the savvy one deciding to do a reddit AMA

Isn't that a tad bit presumptuous?

WRT his decision, I suspect it bubbled upwards through his campaign staff, and at some point he said something like, "Cool".

Don't think that takes away from his decision, regardless of nature of the chain. He could have said "Nah, not wasting my time with that" when presented the option, but instead he decided to do it.


He even referenced his own meme at the end of his last comment.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...

http://i.imgur.com/VKN34.jpg




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