Honesty helps here perhaps not to you so much.  When Obama took office January, 2009 the market was in the throes of the Bush 43 slide from over 14 thousand.  There were no expectations that it could be turned in a day or a month.  The Bush slide continued to 6600 and turn around it did...the market under Obama tripled.  What Obama inherited was a world wide financial crisis under Bush.  The USA, other than perhaps Germany, was the only country that finanacially survived.