# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/21 "2012-08-29T21:32:35Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > As long as he says he likes Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson, he’s golden. Damn real. That’s not a Reddit thing. That goes for everyone, anywhere. So, who is responsible for making sure we get an Ask The President thread here at the dope? ETA: I haven’t had trouble with the site yet. Is it not loading from this [link](http://www.reddit.com/user/PresidentObama)? ---
**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, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/22 "2012-08-29T21:34:47Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > So, who is responsible for making sure we get a Ask The President thread here at the dope? If Reddit can’t handle the extra traffic, the hamsters running this place would never recover. ---
**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, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/23 "2012-08-29T21:39:22Z")
I liked this little addendum to the end of one of his answers: “By the way, if you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!” ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/24 "2012-08-29T21:54:55Z")
> **[I crashed reddit? Fuck it, have an upvote.](http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3qoqk3)** > > Click to Enlarge... write a comment or recaption! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/25 "2012-08-29T21:57:56Z")
Pretty damn cool, even if most of his answers were stock campaign trail stuff. I was very interested to see that he thinks reversing Citizens blahblah act might be doable. ---
**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, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/26 "2012-08-29T23:13:16Z")
He spoke in Charlottesville VA this afternoon and as of 5:30 hadn’t gotten on Air Force One, which was about 15 miles from where he spoke. So if he was participating this afternoon it must have been from his limo. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/27 "2012-08-30T02:51:14Z")
I waste too much time on Reddit, but sometimes it’s really cool. This would be one of those times. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/28 "2012-08-30T03:03:02Z")
Looks like r/trees was too slow to hound him. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068/29 "2012-08-30T13:25:56Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Damn real. That’s not a Reddit thing. That goes for everyone, anywhere. > > So, who is responsible for making sure we get an Ask The President thread here at the dope? No kidding. I’m pretty sure we now know where the smartest, hippest people on the internet really are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-obama-doing-an-ama-on-reddit-now/633068.md?page=1)