<story><title>AMA with Barack Obama</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>revorad</author><text>The President of United States is doing a Reddit AMA and all you can do is &lt;i&gt;predict disappointment&lt;/i&gt;? Really?&lt;p&gt;Why bother?&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re wrong, your comment will seem too negative and cynical (which it is).&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re right, well, that&apos;d be disappointing, right?&lt;p&gt;Comments like yours make me want to rename this site Hater News.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>Can&apos;t wait for the top post to be another asinine &quot;comment phrased as a question&quot; about legalising marijuana!&lt;p&gt;Joking aside, I predict disappointment. Reddit users will want hard-hitting answers, Obama will definitely not give them (already the internet freedom question has been fluffy-answered). In all honestly, no-one should expect anything else- the POTUS is not going to unveil new thoughts and strategies through Reddit.&lt;p&gt;That said, it shows how far they&apos;ve come from the &quot;jailbait&quot; scandal a few months ago, but I strongly suspect Republicans will refer back to it in good time.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Hey, at least PresidentObama bought Reddit Gold. Somehow I doubt it&apos;ll be enough to cover the bandwidth, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>I&apos;m trying to lay out what I think are the reasonable expectations from this AMA, and how they differ from what a lot of people will want. I&apos;m sorry if this somehow offends you. In the future I&apos;ll try my best to be unrelentingly positive about everything, despite the evidence presented to me.&lt;p&gt;Don&apos;t get me wrong, it&apos;s a bold and somewhat brave move by the Obama team to do this- there are myriad ways it can blow up in their faces (Rampart, anyone?). But as a consequence of that, they&apos;re going to be playing it very safe, I&apos;m sure.</text></comment>
<story><title>AMA with Barack Obama</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>revorad</author><text>The President of United States is doing a Reddit AMA and all you can do is &lt;i&gt;predict disappointment&lt;/i&gt;? Really?&lt;p&gt;Why bother?&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re wrong, your comment will seem too negative and cynical (which it is).&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re right, well, that&apos;d be disappointing, right?&lt;p&gt;Comments like yours make me want to rename this site Hater News.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>Can&apos;t wait for the top post to be another asinine &quot;comment phrased as a question&quot; about legalising marijuana!&lt;p&gt;Joking aside, I predict disappointment. Reddit users will want hard-hitting answers, Obama will definitely not give them (already the internet freedom question has been fluffy-answered). In all honestly, no-one should expect anything else- the POTUS is not going to unveil new thoughts and strategies through Reddit.&lt;p&gt;That said, it shows how far they&apos;ve come from the &quot;jailbait&quot; scandal a few months ago, but I strongly suspect Republicans will refer back to it in good time.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Hey, at least PresidentObama bought Reddit Gold. Somehow I doubt it&apos;ll be enough to cover the bandwidth, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FlukeATX</author><text>Just want to chime in, it looks like Obama is heading out[1] after answering only ten questions. I think it&apos;s fair to call that disappointing when the thread had more than 12,000 comments.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/c60nmtc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>