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December 22, 2009
This Decade? Not So Good.
In my book, I referred to it as a "dark ride." Unfortunately, people agree. NBC/WSJ poll:
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.”
Two recessions, major terrorist attack, Katrina, financial meltdown, George W. Bush. What's not to like?
Filed under: Polls
Posted By Bob Cesca | December 22, 2009 8:21 AM
Comments
Grumble, grumble, bat shit, cat shit ......... my life just ain't fair! I'm surrounded by the 29 and 11 percenters!
I swear I can't go anywhere around here without hearing how wonderful Bush was and how badly Obama is screwing things up.
Worse yet - it's way too early to start drinking.
Posted by: kansasdem
at December 22, 2009 8:55 AM
You forgot to add Twitter as one of the bad things of the decade.
Posted by: Political Party Pooper
at December 22, 2009 9:31 AM
Bob you didn't even mention Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, 2 wars and a doubling of the national debt
Posted by: eljefejeff
at December 22, 2009 9:35 AM
Just a few more things to add;
No Jobs
Palin
Tea Baggers
Sore Loser GOPer's
GOP being the party of NO
No safety net for people who have lost their homes, jobs or both
Posted by: mary from TN
at December 22, 2009 10:49 AM
These numbers are obviously Obama's fault. After all he's been president for almost 10 percent of the decade.
Posted by: mattpd
at December 22, 2009 11:11 AM
A terrorist attack that killed 3,000 Americans in an hour gripped our psyche for most of the last decade, along with efforts to prevent further attacks along with incessant political noise.
Posted by: Jonah Barcelona
at December 22, 2009 12:02 PM
Isn't it interesting that the GOP spent much of the decade trying to figure out how to keep more Americans (the fact that not all those who died on 9/11 were American seems to have been forgotten) from dying in terrorist attacks yet we have the equivilent number Americans dying every 24 days due to lack of health insurance & they aren't willing to do one damn thing to prevent that... except tort reform - using the justice system - which they are absolutely opposed to using in dealing with those accused of terrorist acts. The illogic of it all is breath-taking.
Posted by: ceu
at December 22, 2009 12:56 PM
Remember how carefree and naive we were in 1999 - before this decade began? All we were worried about was Y2K and whether they would ever stop playing that damn Prince song on the radio...
Back then Britney was still wholesome, Madonna was still a woman and it would have been Simon, Randy and Paula who, who and who?
Posted by: BenR
at December 23, 2009 7:45 AM



