Brit Hume: Michelle Obama speech at Democratic convention ‘just terrific’

Fox News political analyst Brit Hume praised former first lady Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday for being “just terrific.”

The former first lady delivered a fiery speech Tuesday night as she tore into former President Trump and energized the Democrat Party. Several hosts on Fox News praised her speech, with the veteran political pundit Hume saying Obama’s address was the highlight of the night.

“I think the speech of the night was Michelle Obama. She is an extraordinarily impressive woman, former first lady of the United States. You can see why members of the Democratic Party always kind of hope that maybe she’d step in and run for president after him in any of these past several cycles,” he said on Fox News.

Hume wasn’t entirely complimentary of Obama, saying he found it a “little rich” to hear the former first lady talking about “hope” again.

“I can’t imagine why somebody who has had the life she’s had, a product of Princeton and Harvard Law School and an elite law firm, first lady of the United States, with a magnificent house on Martha’s Vineyard worth about $12 million and another one going up in Hawaii, why it is that she’s so hopeless all the time and has to have her hope revived by the goings-on in the Democratic Party?” he said.

“Apart from that, I thought she was just terrific,” he added.

Obama’s speech on Tuesday received a warm reception from the Democrats at the convention as she targeted Trump over his “Black jobs” comment.

“By the way — who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those “Black jobs?’” Obama said as the crowd applauded.

Former President Obama delivered the keynote speech of the night after his wife spoke in Chicago, where he also took aim at Trump.

Fox News’s Bret Baier also complimented both speeches, saying the former president’s speech showed why he is still “a star” within the party.

“Barack Obama, essentially showing this crowd why he is still such a star inside the Democratic Party, but perhaps, perhaps overshadowed by his wife, the former first lady, Michelle Obama, who gave an amazing speech that got this crowd on their feet to say, ‘do something’ in refrain after refrain,” he said.

Former President Obama himself questioned whether he was stupid to be speaking after his wife, given her commanding speech and hold of the convention audience.

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