Hillary Clinton: Staying in the race in case of assassination

Although Obama clinched the Democratic party's nomination tonight, we should recall that a couple weeks ago, competitor Hillary Clinton implied that potential assassination of the leading candidate is among the reasons for her to stay in the race this long.

My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know I just, I don't understand it.

Clinton later apologized. It is true that she did not speak directly of a potential assassination of Obama, and may have been talking of the general need for a second option. But given her skill as a speaker, her desire for the nomination, and the real sense of danger for Obama, such statements should be neither spoken nor taken lightly.