Obama must be referring to the fact that in order for you to be successful, some federal regulator HAD TO GET OUT OF THE WAY.
Which he is parsing to mean, “made that happen”.
So!
Anytime you have any measure of success, you should be thankful for the regulator, who didn’t stop you....
Reminds me of the scene in Young Guns II Where Billy said to Chisum “the way I see it, you owe me (some amount of money - I can’t recall at this point; perhaps $1.50) for each one of your cattle we didn’t steal”.