*According to the New York Times’ Alessandra Stanley, Michelle Obama’s speech was a reminder that the role of president’s wife “seems pretty much frozen in the template set by Jacqueline Kennedy and Pat Nixon”.

*Writing in the The Washington Post, EJ Dionne said the speech was “thoroughly apolitical on the surface” and that it “carried multiple political messages”.

*Paul West, in the Los Angeles Times, said Mrs. Obama set out “to humanize a candidate who often comes across as aloof and remote from the lives of ordinary Americans”.

*Politico’s Jennifer Epstein said Mrs. Obama’s message was simple: “We are you.”