The delightful cherry on top of this sundae of bullshit that is the Obama-wounded troops pseudo-scandal is this bit from Ben Politico Smith:
The accurate story, which the Obama campaign never told particularly clearly because it isn't all that flattering, seems to be that they were afraid the trip would be criticized as political.
I suppose in media-land it is "unflattering" to not want a visit to injured servicemembers to be turned into a revolting political circus of gotcha clowning about "hating the troops." Elsewhere it's called "common sense."
The simple fact is that no matter what Obama does ("One thing is certain — he did cancel the trip. We don't need any evidence of that and it is damning in and of itself. Whatever the rationale"), McCain and the wingnuts are going to screech that he "hates the troops," because they have nothing else but slander and a vague hope that somehow Obama's popularity is "cultish."
The real story here is that when you're reduced to nonsensical smears that get debunked in real time, as well as yelling that the other guy is in trouble because people like him, you got nothing. Hell, even the NYTimes knows it, which means you know it, I know it, dogs know it.