PRESIDENT OBAMA’S 2,000 POINT TUMBLE. I don’t think it’s really fair to blame Obama for that — though his intemperate rhetoric hasn’t helped — but this is certainly a fair observation: “Now, imagine if President Bush had presided over a 2,000-point stock market tumble in the same time period — during the first few months of his presidency.” Make that first month, singular. Yeah, now that would absolutely have been Bush’s fault.