"What if the president lied to us?" (Salon)

[Waiting For Everyman]

38. None of those are even POTUS' worst lie lately.

I won't be forgetting this one anytime soon because it is so stunningly and insultingly blatant and there was no need to say it. He didn't even have to "go there" in his remarks. He deliberately chose to. This remark defined, for me, who he is. And it changed my opinion of him considerably. (which was already sliding since this Snowden matter)

"what makes us different from other countries is not simply our ability to secure our nation, it’s the way we do it -- with open debate and democratic process."

To say that at this moment in time, when so many of us are so publicly concerned about the total lack of those very things... That was like a big "fuck you!" to us, the American people.

In my opinion, because he demonstrated that he could so easily and casually tell this whopper lie, he would definitely have no problem telling the other lies.