Even if you assume that waterboarding is the most vile torture ever performed by an individual in the history of the world, the President of the United States (along with the house and the senate) willfully violating the constitution is far more dangerous ...
As long as the constitution stands a crime committed by a member of the government can be brought to justice because (eventually) the checks and balances on power that the constitution provides will provide the opportunity and the motivation to investigate these crimes. If the constitution falls the government can institutionalize injustice, and then the most horrible crimes will be committed on the citizens the government is supposed to serve.
People today really need to stop saying "Never Again" on the anniversaries of the holocaust and start reading their history and understanding how a government was turned against its people. Under the Weimar Republic the German people sacrificed rights a little at a time, until a megalomaniacal narcissistic socialist took control of the country and started eliminating the remaining rights because of manufactured crises. People didn’t start cheering for gumboots and blitzkriegs, they started cheering for an end of the economic disaster and were willing to sacrifice anything to make it happen.
If Obama was really worth the hype he could find a way to deal with the economic "crisis" without undermining the very document that protects the rights of citizens; and prevents the United States from being just another totalitarian dictatorship with a charismatic leader.
