>Isn't it forbidden in your country to offend your president?
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>The US takes great pride in freedom of speech and political expression. It's an admirable trait, though as you might predict, taken to excess by some.
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>Presidents often are lampooned and ridiculed, though there is a line- or at least there used to be one. For example, when an anonymous person likened Bush to Hitler in 2004 there was a media storm of protest lasting many days. 5 years later, the press that we are told gives Obama a free pass has said almost nothing when swastikas and Hitler comparisons are a daily event. But that's not all: it had been a convention to respect the office of President if not the incumbent, but even that is going. For example, witness the unprecedented carryings-on during Obama's recent address to the joint session of Congress: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/09/AR2009090902298.html?sid=ST2009090903520

That's interesting. I've seen it all over the news here. It's been covered ad nausem on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, FoxNews, MSNBC...