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By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Hillary Clinton | Kneel Before Zod | Rooting For Injuries — Comments (1) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

The new anthem of the Clinton campaign:

The Clinton campaign plans to use the coming six-week gap in primary voting to aggressively push its case that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., lacks the necessary experience to be president as the superdelegates loom by far as the most important voters in the race.

After Obama's Tuesday win in Mississippi, the strategy of defining the Illinois senator while the delegate count stays essentially frozen reflects a belief by Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign advisers -- after withstanding perhaps the roughest month of Clinton's presidential campaign -- that the New York senator now has a powerful ally on her side: time.

Mississippi marks the last primary or caucus for a six-week stretch -- by far the longest pause in this year's nomination fight.

That gives Clinton a chance to battle Obama without time pressures that magnify every moment on the trail, allowing her to make a deliberate and methodical case in favor of her candidacy -- and against Obama's.

I don't know just how accurate all of this may be; it is certainly just as easy for Obama to make use of this time to make the case for himself as it is for Clinton to make use of it for her own ends. It is incontrovertible, however, that she will benefit from the fact that for six weeks, we won't hear about any more Obama primary and caucus victories. That stoppage of Obama's momentum is a much needed salve for Hillary Clinton's political wounds.