Obama may be best economic president ever for Stock Market

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32. This is the kind of context that would have helped your OP.

There's not a whole lot that Obama can do to improve the situation as it stands. I think if he had done some things differently earlier on, he would be in a better place to fight right now but that is water under the bridge. We all have to deal with what we have, not what we could have had. Obama can't get much through the house while republicans control it and the house isn't turning blue in the next three years.

I believe Obama's economic tenure will be at as a time of stabilization after the disastrous free-fall created by the bush administration and its cohorts in congress (republican and Democratic). His policies have not helped the economy that much but they did stop things from getting too much worse. That doesn't make for the "best economic president ever" but it does make him better than any recent republican.

If we are very, very lucky we may get a moderate Democrat elected in 2016 who will move the nation more to the left as Clinton did in many ways if we ignore NAFTA and the repeal of Glass-Steagall. If a miracle happens perhaps we could get an actual progressive, but that would need an accompanying wave of progressives elected to congress to be of any use.