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I don't disagree with your assessment of the warping effects of lobbying money. I think, however, that we need to go after the low hanging fruit first.
Attacking the problem at its core would only quickly mire the administration down in bruising battles over free speech and so on. Unfortunately there is a long history of corporate legal developments which have entrenched the idea that corporations have many of the rights of human persons and that use of corporate money for political objectives is a free speech issue. I think these were terrible developments but they aren't going to be undone in the near future.
The first focus has to be on whittling away at the fringes and getting some tangible results in order to overcome cynicism and motivate energy toward greater results.
If obama tries to attack the most fundamental problem first he will simply be stymied, all his energy will drain away in a futile push, and public opinion will quickly turn against him as he will appear to be incapable of actually accomplishing anything. He needs to move swiftly on things that can bear fruit in the near future and will shake things up. Then as momentum changes and concentrated power is put on the defensive, the big questions can be more directly approached.

Wow! Great assessment. I agree with you, and I never fully understood the whole corporate entities=living person thing.
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