The Pentagon Didn’t Say Obama Couldn’t Visit The Troops In Germany

They just said that Obama couldn’t take his campaign staffers with him since their inclusion would have made the visit too much like a campaign stop.
Meaning that Obama could visit the troops, but he chose not to because he couldn’t bring his army of campaign staffers with him to act as a buffer between him and the troops.
So the “the Pentagon wouldn’t let Obama visit the troops” line is just spin. He could have, but he chose not to.
But Obama did call some of the soldiers today after he got blasted for deciding to spend a night on the town in Berlin instead of visit them.
So that was big of him. After the fact.