[NH_2]

I don’t agree that the YouTube personalities, despite being given access, didn’t ask the President tough questions. During the interview with Obama, Hank Green (the author) asked the President about several things:

  - the feasibility of the ideas he put forth in the SOTU
  - the revolving door between industry and government
  - his use and alleged overuse of drone strikes
  - the long-term foreign policy strategy on North Korea
  - the confusing marijuana policy in the US

I think these are all legitimate questions that the President should have to answer for. I think that there could have been follow-up questions asked, but the session didn’t seem like it was intended to be a back and forth. Obama also took a long time in answering each question, which may have been because the complexity of the issues discussed demanded long answers, or just because he wanted to run the clock.

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[brandonmenc]

> the session didn’t seem like it was intended to be a back and forth

Precisely the problem with giving valuable interviewing time to people like this.

They're so happy to show up that they "don't remember a lot of the interview," let alone press for it to be a real one. (Hank Green's words on MSNBC after the interview.)

The President has stock answers for every single one of those questions, btw.