Reply #90: No it wasn't

[karynnj]

Hillary argued that accepting campaign dollars from lobbyists was ok.

Obama is saying that we need to change the rules for lobbying. Given his work on the ethics bill, it would be to make things more transparent and to further make it harder for lobbyists to control legislation.

Edwards is saying that we need to confront the lobbyists.

However, changing the way public officials deal with lobbyists - changing the rules - may be the effective way to change the status quo. What exactly does Edwards propose doing? You have a right to lobby your representative - as does the owner of a business. Where it gets dicey is when corporate interests via their lobbyists provide personal goodies or campaign contributions to legislators who do what they want. There I find the legislators the more culpable, because they are abusing the trust people put in them.