"Bush and Cheney and their minions have created this mess..."

Sort of. They've agravated it considerably. Let me put it this way:

The Great Ruling Corporate Oligarchy in America has created this mess through its agents, the Redemocrapulicant Duopoly. Bush and Cheney and their minions have helped greatly to make it even far worse for the last 8 years than it might have been. Therefore it would be wise to utterly repudiate them and whoever follows in their wake (meaning McCain and Palin).

That, however, gives me little confidence in the Democrats as a governing party, although I do rather like Mr Obama as a person. I could not stomach rewarding the present ruling party for the last 8 years of insanity. In fact, their leaders should be put on trial for committing international war crimes.