Media, Poll: Bush Decade ‘Awful’

The media and polling are still unable to make up their mind about the Bush decade.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The media and polling are still unable to make up their mind about the Bush decade.

Neither can decide whether President George W. Bush’s terms were bad or really bad.

According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 58 percent answered the last nine years were “awful” or “not so good.”

Only 12 percent said it was “good” or “great”

Responding to Time magazine’s description of “the decade from hell,” NBC said it was “not the decade from hell. But close.”

The poll found that the “greatest negative impact on America this past decade” was 9/11 (38 percent).

In second was the housing crisis (23 percent), followed by the Iraq war (20 percent), the 2008 stock market crash (11 percent), and Hurricane Katrina (six percent).

However, a whopping 74 percent of those polled said that economic prosperity erroded in the United States. Fifty-four percent said peace and national security declined. And 46 percent saw a declines in national health.