He should get credit for all of those things...when oil was $120 a barrel and gas was over $4 and the stock market wasn't doing so well I didn't hear anyone (besides me) saying "oh Obama shouldn't be blamed for that"...everyone was blaming him..now when things are great people like you want to deny him credit so that Obama remains bad in your feeble brain
You clearly know nothing about free markets, economics, etc to state such foolishness. Learn something about these subjects if you want to try to debate them with me, or else stick to psych or whatever it is you're apparently an expert in.
Show any post where I ever said he was to blame for oil being $120 a barrel or the stock markets being so low in early '09?
I'm sorry I wasn't here to join you in defending him in early '09.
Neither he nor Bush (nor any other president) control economic cycles or influence free markets to any real degree. It's OPEC, the Fed, speculators, supply and demand, earnings, etc, etc.
Of course gasoline can go up when refiners and others are squeezed. Gas in my neighborhood is barely $2 a gallon, while it's nearly twice that in some areas of the country. That price difference in gasoline is sure as hell not the fault of OPEC or market speculators.
Stock markets can become more or less attractive with things like increased or decreased taxes and regs (politicians), changes in interest rates or other Fed policy (the Fed), earnings (free market forces, "financial engineering", regulatory and tax environment, etc)... The market went up nearly 200% over a half dozen years mainly on zero interest rates, and 2/3 of that was just getting back to 2007 levels.
Bonds can become more or less attractive as interest rates change, but that's mainly the Fed.
Hope this helps.