I think that if I ask most blokes about their personal business, they are quite entitled to tell me to mind my own bloody business - or I expect to duck the punch that's coming my way. That's the reaction I would have expected from most Americans I have known - and I have no problem with it. Why your standards of personal courtesy for dealing with your president are lower than the ones you use in dealing with each other baffles me as a foreigner. It's a demanding job, isn't it?