Proving the point that sneering is no substitue for discussion.....
the article is non-sense.
this guy creates a brutal straw-man that Obama believes "Obama’s argument — if that’s not too generous a word — is that the Navy in particular, and the military in general, can do so much more because of technological advances. " then he proceeds to go all over the map, about keynesian economics, ATM's amongst other things. Obama never made that argument, if anything he was implying that number for ships isn't a valid measure of military because changes have been made. That is, nuclear submarines, carriers, planes that travel great distances etc.. citing number of ships is short-sighted and irrelevant to any discussion about the navy without context, sheer numbers isn't indicative of anything. Also, Obama has more "ships" then Bush, so Romney again was incorrect in his assertions. However, I wouldn't expect a nitwit like you to garner this information and connect the dots with a double digit IQ.