America Can Do Better

So, the US basketball team won the bronze medal today in Greece, avenging it's earlier loss to Lithuania, a county about the same size and population of my hometown. Now, while I have been unable to find a way to actually blame this sorry state of affairs on the Bush administration, I feel that the sorry state of USA basketball does reflect an America that has lost its way in the world. The 100 million dollar NBA salary of the "Dream Team" reflects the tremendous waste of the current 500 Billion dollar budget deficit. Team USA's one dimensional game, with its total lack of outside shooting is mightily similar to the Bush adminitration's one-dimensional foreign policy and its total lack of diplomacy. We expect to win in basketball and we expect a foreign policy that makes us safer. We expect better. Vote for Kerry. America can do better.