Obama Defies Pessimists as Rising Economy Converges With Stocks

Making those claims are purely political. The market collapse started well before Bush was in office. The market is run on fear and greed. There was too much fear bringing the market down to 6500. At that point, any smart person thought it was undervalued and bought. Whether democrat or republican, no president is responsible for a market gaining 60% in a matter of a few months... especially when no policy or regulation passed.
You honestly expect to have a SHRED of credibility to call the catastrophe at the end of the Bush administration 8 years later directly related to 2000? So let's get this straight, when you look at this 12 year graph, it makes sense to blame the collapse Bush oversaw on Clinton, because it started then. Yeah, I agree, things run in cycles, like your partisan revisionism. Blame cycle when Democrats are in, praise cycle when they aren't. Geez.