A SAD PHOTO: Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan Campaigning at the Steps of San Francisco’s City Hall. She was a heroine, until she became an embarrassment.

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HERE'S THE TEXT OF OBAMA'S SPEECH, which won't be delivered until later.

Comments on Hillary's speech here. Text isn't online at her website yet.

UPDATE: Fifty-four, fifty-six, whatever.

MORE: Obama says: "John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks, but maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have been hardest hit by this economy -- cities in Michigan, and Ohio, and right here in Minnesota -- he'd understand the kind of change that people are looking for." Er, what about the Forgotten America tour?

STILL MORE: Reader Randall Pickett emails: "This is really rich from the guy who didn't campaign in Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan, Florida, . . ."

Plus, A.C. Kleinheider on Hillary's speech: That Ain’t Any Kind Of Concession Speech I Ever Heard Of.

MORE STILL: Ann Althouse has thoughts.

MEGAN MCARDLE ON PUBLIC PENSION DISASTER: "Liberal commenters wonder why I don't associate public sector unions with the public good. This is why."

THE TEN OLDEST BARS IN AMERICA: I used to live close to the White Horse Tavern; I liked it.

ANGRY WHITE WOMEN: "A new Pew Research Center poll points to a surging tide of fury, especially among white women. As recently as April, this group preferred Obama over the presumptive Republican John McCain by three percentage points. By May, McCain enjoyed an eight-point lead among white women."

Will they stay mad? Or will they decide to forgive and go back to him?

FOX CALLS SOUTH DAKOTA FOR HILLARY.

UPDATE: They call Montana for Obama.

SO I'M WATCHING MCCAIN'S SPEECH and his delivery isn't great. He's stumbled over some words, and at one point flashed a badly timed smile that reminded me of Joe Biden. But on substance, well, he's being pretty substantive. He's laying out the differences between himself and Obama quite thoroughly and plainly. "I don't seek the Presidency on the presumption I am blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need. . . . My country saved me."

Plus, this: "If I am elected President, the era of the permanent campaign of the last sixteen years will end." Not quite a one-term pledge, but . . . .

UPDATE: Here's the text. It reads better than it sounded.

STUMBLING ACROSS THE FINISH LINE.

YOU CAN CONCEDE, but you can't take back that video.

NIGERIA: Sliding toward the abyss? I hope not.

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