Obama and Edwards lobby to make lobbying reform an issue

...and of course they seek to use the issue to attack the front-runner, Senator Clinton. Details here. I dunno--Obama claims he wants to be a new, transformative candidate...yet this issue is an old one. It's been ping-ponged back and forth for years. And it's never really been shown that lobbyists' contributions directly influence how House and Senate members vote. One wonders if this kind of old line of attack can do Obama or Edwards much good. UPDATE: Jeanne Cummings of Politico.com agrees with me. Might be that lobbying reform was so 2006.