"I can't tell you the number of women, including Michelle, who say choose the person you think is going to be best," President Obama said in an interview airing today on C-SPAN.

Michelle Obama understands the nomination of a woman to the Supreme Court in a way her husband cannot.

Through hard work and intelligence, she went from a working class family in Chicago South Side to Princeton, Harvard Law, a big-time legal firm and a $300,000-a-year job. She did not get special favors because she is a woman; she earned her right to the big salary and high-powered career.

Those feminists who continue to insist that the president should nominate a woman to the bench in order to balance the numbers to reflect the population are demeaning all professional women.

In my career in politics and the media, I have never gotten a job because my boss needed a woman. I was hired for my hard work ethic, experience, intelligence, and skills.

Those are the criteria the president should use in choosing his Supreme Court nominee. And if that candidate happens to be a woman, even better, because we'll know she got to the nation's highest bench the old-fashioned way; she earned it.