So your argument is that he's an honest idiot rather than a smart liar? I care very little about this "scandal" but from what I've read, it seems very clear that he knew what was going on well in advance of his press conference and made a calculated decision: I think he knew more people whose votes might be altered by this issue were watching his press conference than watch Fox News. It was a shrewd political decision. Democrats will pretend that he didn't know because they believe he has a lot of integrity (he doesn't) while Republicans will harp on the issue because they were unable to effectively use it against him to turn the tide of the election. In the end, I have little use for either group and simply call it how I see it: Obama did what he had to do just as Romney would have done in the same situation.
You really believe Obama is an idiot? And the fact that he had few scandals in his first 4 years lends to him being a liar?