If she can read the president's oath of office without screwing up, she would impress me.

Oh, get over it. ALL politics is identity politics to begin with (you have to identify with someone/something, right?). Furthermore, Americans can't even distill race or social background when it comes to black people, so what makes things different now? So the POTUS called her by her first name? Ever thought that maybe they had some relationship from years past? If a black commentator made the same comments about a nonblack guy calling another African American by his first name instead of his title (as in, "Colin, you served our country well, and I have no dout that you have the thanks of a grateful nation"), you and everyone else would be yelling so flipping what? Not everything is patronizing, and if she were so offended, I'm sure her boogie-down (that's the Bronx for those not acclimated) mentality would've set him straight right then and there.

Give these people a little credit.