Yes, but in some circles it's almost considered intellectually fashionable to complain about it with regards to the Bush administration.
"Hey guys, check out my wicked invention! I got the idea from a newspaper snippet on Bush."
"It's a wheel."
"Aha! Yes, but I've RE-invented it. Watch. Blablablabushbadgrrrrrr."
When you vote for anyone, you go in blind. History makes the judgments.
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"For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks."
- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)
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