Oh yay, a new wave of Billy Beer!
Obama Q&A on Reddit briefly knackers entire site
US President Obama has his fingers crossed for another four years in the White House - and to bolster support for a second term, the Democrat took to Reddit.com for a cosy chat with left-leaning cat-worshipping netizens. The 30-minute "ask me anything" session ended up being fairly pedestrian even though it garnered 23,000 …
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Thursday 30th August 2012 18:14 GMT Bill Neal
30 min = 6 answers?
I was disappointed he only chose to answer 6 questions out of the flood that came. He stayed away from the hard ones. I'm sure any politician would prefer this method of Q&A to a press conference. There were a lot of well written and serious questions that will remain unanswered for a long time.
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Friday 31st August 2012 09:29 GMT Aldous
Re: 30 min = 6 answers?
more like he had to wait while his team vetted which questions to answer, check his responses to ensure they offended no sector of the voting populace etc hence why one of the questions answered was about beer and not foreign policy (other than restating the party line) more details on the economy (other then yeah it sucks but we are trying) etc.
no different to a press conference where they tell the press which segments are off limits on pain of restricted access. still suppose its better then blair and his "interviews" that had a full committee approved script
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Thursday 30th August 2012 21:38 GMT toadwarrior
Re: 30 min = 6 answers?
It was something to appeal to the young and distract the internet from the republicans but it's good that he did it and if you thought that he (or anyone else) would touch on subjects that could cause him problems then you're not being realistic.
The republicans obviously combed over everything he posted looking for anything to use against him even if they knew there wouldn't be anything there. I don't think we can risk having him screw up and Mitt Rmoney getting elected.
He's certainly not been a great president by anyone's standards but he's not Mitt Romney.
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Friday 31st August 2012 00:55 GMT Shannon Jacobs
Mass media? Journalism? Who needs free publicity?
Notice how the neo-GOP has taken their hatred of the mass media and REAL journalism to new extremes? They've realized they don't need the free publicity. They have enough money to absolute saturate the voters during the last week before the election. You're about to see an infinite flood of ads showing puppy-eating Democrats!
Watch my ads! Look at Paul Ryan's abs!
Vote Nixon/Goldwater 2012 so that government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1% of Americans, shall rule the earth!