His campaign saw an opportunity in her words and quickly said it had "no place in this campaign". Then they sent to members of the press Keith Olbarmann's rant against her, in which he falsely interprets her as using possible assassinations as a reason for her to stay in the campaign. According to him, she was calling for a "dark curse upon the land" (Obama's killing) and that her soul was "frightening". They try to ensure that everyone interprets her like this:
And then after all the damage has been done, Obama absolves himself of any involvement, saying "I don't think that Senator Clinton intended anything by it," and that "we should put it behind us."