I haven 't got much feeling for Clinton one way or another personally ; there were good times and bad times in the ' 90s , and while a part of me groans at the prospect of a return to the relentless scandal-mongering on the part of discontents ( most of it in the end unsuccessful , as it happens , except in forcing all of us to go through the pointless contortions of counterargument ) , you rightly point out that I can 't really blame the target of these attacks for the attacks themselves .