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Internet President Barack Obama is on Reddit Until 5 p.m.
Jason Mick (Blog) - August 29, 2012 4:35 PM

45 comment(s) - last by woody1.. on Sep 4 at 10:37 AM

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The President will answer your questions -- or those he gets to

Alexis Ohanian of Reddit's "AMA" (ask me anything) series got its highest profile guest yet today.

The forum/reposting site has a live thread currently running where the POTUS -- President Barack Obama is answering questions.

Previously President Obama has held a Google+ "hangout" on Google Inc.'s (GOOG) growing social network. He's also on Pintrest and Instagram, while regularly posting videos to YouTube.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By Reclaimer77 on 8/29/2012 4:58:58 PM , Rating: 1

He can't because he's a classic narcissist.

But he hasn't ONLY campaigned. He's also played 100 full rounds of golf since he's been in office. Move over Tiger Woods!!! Your tax dollars at work.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By mocyd on 8/29/2012 5:19:26 PM , Rating: 4

I'm assuming you got this pissed when you found out Bush was on vacation for over 1000 days (32%) of his 8 year Presidency.

Such vitriol and denial- I'm guessing you work as an underpaid/uninformed intern for Fox news?

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By woody1 on 8/29/2012 5:36:59 PM , Rating: 1

You assume that the people who work at Fox News actually believe the tripe they peddle. I doubt that they actually believe the stuff they say.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By EnzoFX on 8/29/2012 5:58:30 PM , Rating: 1

True. Garbage in a bubble doesn't let facts get in.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By overlandpark4me on 9/2/2012 12:13:20 AM , Rating: 2

LOL, I guess it really irks you that so many people watch that channel and not the back stabbing our troops station, MSNBC.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By gixser on 8/29/2012 5:41:47 PM , Rating: 2

I agree, but lets not exaggerate. Not "over 1000 days". Factcheck.org has it at 977 days. :-)

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_vacation_days_d...

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By woody1 on 8/29/2012 5:33:25 PM , Rating: 3

Both Saint Ronny Reagan and GW Bush both took more vacation days than Obama. If Reagan did it, it must be holy!

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By Reclaimer77 on 8/29/12, Rating: -1

RE: Pardon my expression...

By Shadowself on 8/29/2012 5:43:21 PM , Rating: 2

Even if you scale it just from inauguration to today, George W. Bush took more vacation days than Obama.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By Argon18 on 8/29/2012 5:50:34 PM , Rating: 1

Do we get to count all the days Obama has spent campaigning across the country, giving campaign speeches to college students, etc. as "vacation"? We wastes an awful lot of time doing that. Although maybe it's a good thing, I suppose he can't squander any further $Trillions if he's out drinking beer and giving speeches.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By retrospooty on 8/29/2012 6:08:10 PM , Rating: 2

actually, they did a "term to date" comparison. At this point in his 1st term Reagan had quite a bit more and Bush2 had like double what Obama has. Not that it matters. Like when he is working, he is fixing issues with the economy? LOL. Go for it bro, take the rest of the year off. Take the next 4 as well.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By woody1 on 8/29/2012 6:08:26 PM , Rating: 5

Uh, that's in their first terms, duh! Maybe you're too young to remember. Bush was famous for being on his Texas ranch "chopping brush" and pursuing similar intellectual pursuits.

Reagan, on the other hand, worked short days and, according to his own son, suffered from early dementia while in office. So Reagan didn't really put in a lot of work hours.

Now, you can go back to bashing Obama.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By Reclaimer77 on 8/29/12, Rating: -1

RE: Pardon my expression...

By woody1 on 8/29/2012 6:23:39 PM , Rating: 2

Is that Willard Romney's little weenie you're sucking on?

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By Ammohunt on 8/31/2012 11:56:29 AM , Rating: 1

Its because they were 1000% more competent and needed less time to do the job correctly; frankly i wish Obama would stop trying to be president and go on vacation full time less damage would be done that way.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By wordsworm on 8/30/12, Rating: 0

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By Dorkyman on 8/30/2012 11:02:55 AM , Rating: 2

Unbelievably ignorant statements.

Like him or not, W graduated Yale (that's Yale, pal, think your SAT scores were good enough to get in?) with a HIGHER GPA than that brilliant Kerry guy. In fact, Messiah has frantically hidden his Yale transcript; wonder why...

Messiah didn't "rescue" the auto industry, he rescued the auto unions. Go look it up. And as for health care, the majority of the public STILL thinks ObamaCare is a crap act.

The man is a walking narcissistic disaster. Oh, but he IS black, which is why he got elected. Don't believe me? Ask yourself if a white guy with as feeble a record would have gotten a second glance.

Goodbye and good riddance to the man.

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RE: Pardon my expression...

By wordsworm on 8/30/2012 9:09:19 PM , Rating: 2

When your daddy's very rich and powerful, it's amazing how far that'll take you academically. Meanwhile, Obama made it to Harvard despite the economic challenges that he faced. Not only did he make it to Harvard, but he excelled at it. Reclaimer's always whining about folks not knowing the Constitution. Obama taught it at Chicago University.

Kerry was an idiot, I'll agree to that.

As to getting elected because he's black. That's got to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. He got elected because he's a brilliant speaker, intelligent, and charming.

He's going to get re-elected. Mitt Romney is not a reasonable alternative.

So far, the best American president in the last 30 years is easily Bill Clinton. It's a shame he couldn't have run for a 3rd term. The US would be in great economic shape.

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By StuckMojo on 8/30/2012 11:09:49 PM , Rating: 2

I liked Clinton, it's easy to identify with his womanizing ;)

That said, you can't really attribute the good economy he presided over to him, he just happened to be in office when the Internet / tech boom happened. It would have happened no matter who was there.

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