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President Barack Obama poses with selfie-stick in Buzzfeed interview. Ironically, of course Barack Obama shows world leaders how to actually have a personality
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Sticking out his tongie, wearing shades and and holding a selfie stick Posing in front of mirror, in shades, No world leader does effortlessly cool as well as Barack Obama. Fact.
So what do you do if you’re the president and you’re interviewed by someone as hip and cool as Buzzfeed? In a "candid" video by Buzzfeed showing the US President getting ready for the proper interview, Potus can be seen self-deprecatingly sticking out his tongue at a mirror...
Of course, you can talk about young people and people of colour. You can refer too, to about how a high street chain is undermining your healthcare bill. ...sticking on a pair of shades and acting all Mr Cool...
But it’s apparently essential too that you pose with a Selfie stick. Albeit in an ironic, knowing way. ...failing to dunk his over-sized cookie in a glass of milk...
It's worth comparing  of course that the UK Prime Minster, David Cameron, isn;t the most tech-  doesn;t even know what Buzzfeed is. 'What's the Buzzfeed?" he reportedly asked a group of digital journalists as recently as December. and then blaming it on himself. "Thanks Obama."
Buzzfeed on Thursday published some funny extras from the president’s recent interview with the website’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith. In a sign of the growing importance of digital media, Mr Obama also granted an interview with the Vox website. There was of course, an important message behind the goofing around. None moreso than the promotion of the deadline for Americans to enroll in the Obamacare health insurance scheme, which you can do right here: www.healthcare.gov.
“President Obama made a BuzzFeed video: Things Everybody Does But Doesn't Talk About,” Buzzfeed tweeted. But who else could manage to pull off doing it with a selfie stick? Albeit in an ironic, knowing way
“How did we get Obama to use a selfie stick? Oh, because he wants you to go to https://www.healthcare.gov.” The full video is below
And people love him for it...
I literally love Obama as a person so much like you have to admit he's the coolest president we've ever had
I love that Obama buzz feed video
That Obama buzzfeed video is the greatest. I just absolutely love that man. Hard to imagine me loving another POTUS as much as I do Barack.
@BlackPplVines This is why I love Obama he can take a joke
when obama said "thanks obama" the universe exploded
It's worth comparing his efforts to those of the British Prime Minster, David Cameron, who is yet to find his feet with the digital generation. When talking to a group of journalists at Christmas he asked: 'What's the Buzzfeed?"