# President Obama doing an AMA on Reddit NOW **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068 "2012-08-29T20:23:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/1 "2012-08-29T20:23:29Z")
[Confirmed by Reddit. Link here.](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/) ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/2 "2012-08-29T20:26:40Z")
Seems to be killing Reddit. Can’t even load it. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/3 "2012-08-29T20:30:55Z")
Looks like it’s back up, but the AMA page is in Read Only mode due to the heavy traffic. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/4 "2012-08-29T20:32:58Z")
I don’t see the point. 5000 questions and still not an answer yet. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/5 "2012-08-29T20:33:45Z")
American Medical Association? American Music Awards? ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/6 "2012-08-29T20:35:39Z")
Ask Me Anything ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/7 "2012-08-29T20:36:34Z")
Ask Me Anything? (_no, not_ me) ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/8 "2012-08-29T20:36:40Z")
[QUOTE=JasterMareel] Mr. President, what is your least favorite state in the USA? [/quote] As long as he answers this one, it’ll all be worth it. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/9 "2012-08-29T20:39:07Z")
I see him replying only once so far, to a question about internet freedom. He’s for it. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/10 "2012-08-29T20:42:49Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I see him replying only once so far, to a question about internet freedom. > He’s for it. Really? He just killed Reddit :eek: ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/11 "2012-08-29T20:43:01Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I see him replying only once so far, to a question about internet freedom. > He’s for it. I wonder if it’s crashing just as badly for him. ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/12 "2012-08-29T20:43:24Z")
He commented on NASA too. The intro says he’ll be there for 30 minutes, he’ll likely only get to a handful of the questions posted. Still ridiculously cool, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/13 "2012-08-29T20:45:39Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I see him replying only once so far, to a question about internet freedom. > He’s for it. Also space exploration. He’s for it. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/14 "2012-08-29T20:49:22Z")
Yeah not working for me either. They have had some interesting AMAs (assuming you can browse them right now): [http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/15 "2012-08-29T20:59:50Z")
10,254 comments in 54 minutes. And that’s just from people who can get the damned page to load. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/16 "2012-08-29T21:00:11Z")
Apparently he favors the Bulls. I am not surprised. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/17 "2012-08-29T21:06:06Z")
As long as he says he likes Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson, he’s golden. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/18 "2012-08-29T21:08:02Z")
And he likes the White House’s beer. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/19 "2012-08-29T21:08:31Z")
Did he post a cat picture yet? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/20 "2012-08-29T21:28:40Z")
Looks like reddit’s getting a taste of its own medicine. The whole site it down (at least for me). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068.md?page=2)