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Nick Sowden used his Twitter account to make racial slurs against the US president during Obama's landmark Australian interview with Kerry O'Brien last night.

"If i wanted to see a monkey on TV id watch Wildlife Rescue", read one of Sowden's posts.

Another asked why the TV host flew to the US when "if they wanted an interview with a monkey surely a Ferry to Taronga would have sufficed."

Sowden has since deleted his account.

But he remains active on Facebook, where he is a member of groups like 'I hate it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is President', 'Obama screwed more people than Tiger Woods' and 'The awkwardness when a woman doesn't choose the iron in a game of monopoly'.

Sowden has apologised for the comments, saying they were a joke between friends and taken out of context.

"If people have been offended by it then I'll apologise but if people are going to be offended by that, I mean, there's so many worse things said about Obama and worse things in the world and I think people need to put their lives in perspective," he told The Courier-Mail.

He also hit out at his critics.

"If the internet and Twitterverse is going to be policed Stasi-style by people and taken out of context... it's a bit sad that that's happening.

"I'm not racist. A lot of my friends and people I work with would pretty assuredly say I'm not a racist.''