Report card on Bush Post-Era

[Jiro]

58%: Bush years ‘awful, not so good’

Most believe moral values suffered under Bush, poll says

WASHINGTON -- The jury is in on the Bush decade, and it's not looking good. At least according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

A decisive 58 percent of respondents described the 2000-2009 years as "awful" or "not so good." Twenty-nine percent called it "fair," and a mere 12 percent said it was "good" or "great."

Time Magazine described it as "the decade from hell."

While the Bush administration can't be blamed for all of it, its influence in driving the national pessimism is difficult to deny. Thirty-eight percent said the 9/11 attacks had the "greatest negative impact on America this past decade." Twenty percent said it was the Iraq war.

Twenty-three percent chose the housing crisis, 11 percent selected the 2008 stock market crash, and 6 percent described Hurricane Katrina as the worst national event of the decade.

In what appears to be the most likely complaint, a massive 74 percent said the United States lost ground on economic prosperity, while 66 percent thought it had jettisoned some of its moral values. Fifty-five percent said America treated other nations less respectfully, and 54 percent believed conditions of peace and national security worsened.

Mirroring the likely reason for President Obama's two national priorities, 46 percent said America lost ground on health and well being, and 37 percent said environmental conditions have worsened during the decade.

But it wasn't all bad.

Forty-eight percent said the United States pushed forward in the area of science and technology, and 40 percent believed race relations improved.

"Not the decade from hell," NBC reflected. "But close."

feels bad, man.....

 

[Jiro]

NBC poll: U.S. down on the past decade

Time magazine called the past decade (2000-2009) the "Decade from Hell."

Respondents in the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll don't go that far, but it's clear that many didn't think it was a good decade.

According to the poll, a combined 58% said the decade was either "awful" or "not so good," 29% said it was fair, and just 12% said it was either "good" or "great."

By comparison, in 1989, 39% said it was a fair decade, 38% said it was good, and 21% said it wasn't good (awful and great weren't offered as possible responses in that '89 survey).

Asked what they thought had the greatest negative impact on America this past decade, 38% cited the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 23% picked the mortgage and housing crisis, 20% said the Iraq war, 11% chose the stock market crash, and 6% said Hurricane Katrina.

What's more, the poll shows that 48% believe the U.S. gained ground over the past decade on science and technology, and 40% say it gained ground on race relations.

But 37% said it lost ground on the environment, 46% said it lost ground on health and well being, 50% said it lost ground on peace and national security, 54% said lost ground on the nation's sense of unity, 55% said it lost ground in treating others with respect, 66% said it lost ground on moral values, and a whopping 74% said it lost ground on economic prosperity.

Not a decade from hell -- but close.

again - feels bad, man.....

 

[netrox]

I'ts gonna be hell for conservatives this time.

 

[inspirabull]

The sad thing?

Conservatives have not learned one single thing from what happened there. Not one. It is all someone elses fault. I have zero respect for that. I can respect people for making mistakes and learning from them to some extent. That bunch doesn't even try. That makes them more than incompetent. It makes them mortally incompetent. The way they are at present it is unthinkable to allow them into power again.

 

[Loghead]

Conservatives have not learned one single thing from what happened there. Not one. It is all someone elses fault. I have zero respect for that. I can respect people for making mistakes and learning from them to some extent. That bunch doesn't even try. That makes them more than incompetent. It makes them mortally incompetent. The way they are at present it is unthinkable to allow them into power again.

We have someone like that who likes to roam around here from time to time.