They had help from their financial sponsor, George Sorros, and his friends who have a track record of doing exactly the same thing in a number of countries.
But, let's go beyond that ~ recall when Obama said he was going to bankrupt power generation companies who used coal?
You must have missed that part. That's the sort of talk that used to cause a candidate to lose an election. This time it was just part of the spiel of a guy who was running against Time Magazine's favorite guy ~ so the business community took him at his word.
Obama started his own Depression.
The depression began in 2007 under Bush...you will not be able to rewrite history...no doubt Fannie and Freddie were a problem. However, if you look at the money, this amounts to less than 1/10 of TARP. Wall street crashed the market with their 60 to one leverage, stupid credit default swaps (also bankrupted Iceland and possibly England) and giant ponzi schemes which went undetected by the corrupt SEC.