As much as I personally despise Joe Trippi (dating back to the Howard Dean campaign and the shabby way he and other campaign officials treated my wife), I have to agree with his statements on behalf of the Edwards Campaign about this Hillary Clinton fundraiser.

The campaigns of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards traded pointed criticisms yesterday over Mrs. Clinton’s use of a Washington luncheon for fund-raising.

The confrontation started with Mr. Edwards’s campaign attacking Mrs. Clinton’s $1,000-a-person luncheon and continued as her camp dismissed the broadside as signs of a “flagging campaign.”

At the luncheon, Mrs. Clinton and congressmen met donors to discuss domestic security.

Joe Trippi, a senior adviser to Mr. Edwards, made his criticism in a fund-raising e-mail message that said the luncheon highlighted how Mrs. Clinton was a “corporate Democratic insider” and that the event was a “poster child” for “what is wrong in Washington.”

“There isn’t an American outside of Washington who would not be sickened” by the event, Mr. Trippi said. It was held at the Washington office of Jones Day, the large international law firm.

Simply put, if this were a Republican holding this luncheon for lobbyists at a law firm known for its lobbying activities, would any of the Democrats, Hillary Clinton included, view it as acceptable? We know the answer.

And given Hillary's other ethical lapses in raising money, this simply raises another red flag.