Junior, it's Bernanke's "program" that has set the stock market on fire. This program consists of creating trillions of fictitious dollars (Bernanke bucks) and giving them to the very same people who caused the financial crisis - Wall Street - and some day they will come back to haunt us in the form of raging inflation. Actually, it is already happening.
Bush took office after the tech bubble popped and the Dow was also quite low. Over the next few years we achieved near full employment and started to improve the trade balance through exports. The financial crisis had its roots in the real estate boom of the 90s.
I am not a big Bush booster. I remember talking with a well-informed liberal friend shortly after Bush (fairly) won the 2000 election, and we agreed that Gore might have been lucky. The country, then and now, faced long term problems of high costs, unfunded mandates and a borrow-and-spend culture which actually dates from long before either of us were even born. Not only is Obama not doing the right things, he is doing exactly the wrong things.