Bush and Obama were a tandem team of incompetents. I think Reagan said, what’s wrong with bankruptcy?
you’re confusing TARP with a ton of other stuff. you’re also ignoring the fact that the recession was over during the first quarter of 2009 (which is pretty much day 0 of the obama administration), and that it was the actions of the bushies in late 2008 that steadied the ship during the storm.
now, all of the crap that the obamites inflicted on the economy in the name of a recession that was already over is a completely different conversation.