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That shouldn't bother you. There are full time jobs of making fun of the President. Michael Moore for instance. Rush Limbaugh. Few people get upset over their treatment of the President. What should bother people is what the clown was suggesting happen to Obama via the clown at a state event. I'd like to think we have a society that doesn't advocate the idea that the (or a) President should be seriously injured/killed at a family state fair in front of a crowd. But some people here feel that if it's a member of the other party, it's okay to do just that. There's a difference between making fun of the President and suggesting that the President should come to potentially fatally bodily harm. You can do the first one all you want and shouldn't expect backlash.
I don't recall either Moore or Limbaugh pulling their hijinks at a State Fair. Venue is a lot as I doubt the Fair Board would invite back a cattle company that brought topless chute loader females, though the bar across the road has them. Doubt Andrew Dice Clay would be invited to do his raunch before the Rodeo dance.
There is a certain non political air to a State fair and it's rodeo.
But I do agree it was very tacky to suggest the President is a target for a runaway bull. To suggest bodily harm come to him.
You can't do the making fun thing all you want anyplace you want. It seems a difficult subject for some. I don't pay workers to do what I don't like. I don't pay workers to give their political opinions. I don't pay people to be dumber than the livestock they work with.