PHILADELPHIA (Diya TV) — First Lady Michelle Obama’s address on the first night of the Democratic National Convention was met with overwhelming approval from delegates of her party and grudging praise from Republican operatives and perhaps most notably, silence from the normally vociferous GOP nominee, Donald Trump.
Trump was quick to snap back after speeches from U.S. Sens. Corey Booker of New Jersey, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, however, he left Obama alone.
Here’s a sampling of the best moments of her speech, as well as reactions to them:
“I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves and I watch my daughters — two beautiful, intelligent, black young women — playing with their dogs on the White House lawn,” said First Lady Michelle Obama, of another First Lady who hoped to be president.
“And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters — and all our sons and daughters — now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.”
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a 2004 Democratic candidate for president, told delegates assembled for a Tuesday morning breakfast that Obama’s address was the “most powerful political speech I’ve ever heard.”
The First Lady never mentioned Trump by name, but refuted Trump’s signature call to “make America great again” in her convention address.
“Don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great, that somehow we need to make it great again,” Obama said as delegates waved rectangular “Michelle” signs throughout her speech. “Because this, right now, is the greatest country on earth.”
Reed Galen, the Republican deputy campaign director of U.S. Sen. John McCain’s 2008 White House bid himself took to Twitter to share how impressed he was.
https://twitter.com/reedgalen/status/757762357338574848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
After the First Lady took a shot at simplistic Twitter attacks, a hallmark of GOP nominee Donald Trump, by saying the nation’s complex challenges “can’t be boiled down to 140 characters,” the New York Times’ culture reporter practically shouted:
https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/757760739142754305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
