Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the U. S. Supreme Court, talked about her divorce in a 1990’s interview that has been turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“I cannot attribute that divorce to work,” she said. ” But certainly the fact that I was leaving my home at 7:00am and getting back at 10:00pm was not of assistance in recognizing the problems developing in my marriage.”

“I have found it difficult to maintain a relationship while I’ve pursued my career,” Sotomayor said.  “I know for me finding personal time is enormously difficult. Finding sleep time is sometimes even more difficult.”

Judge Sotomayor has no children and has not remarried.

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Being born in Missouri, I know my way around a farm, and I am familiar with the phrase that Obama used yesterday.

He was talking about McCain and Palin’s new “change” mantra.  He said you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig.

The McCain campaign said that was a sexist remark and that since Palin is the only candidate who wears lipstick, Obama was calling Palin a pig.

I recommend that Obama stop talking about pigs and start talking about cows instead.  He need only look for example to that great president from his own home state of Illinois.

When Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer arguing a case, he used this line of questioning:

Lincoln said, “Well, let’s see how many legs has a cow?”

“Four, of course,” came the reply disgustedly.

“That’s right,” agreed Lincoln. “Now suppose you call the cow’s tail a leg; how many legs would the cow have?”

“Why, five, of course,” was the confident reply.

“Now, that’s where you’re wrong,” said Lincoln. “Calling a cow’s tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”

Nobody called Lincoln sexist for this and everybody understood what he meant.