The Wall Street Journal makes a few pointed observations:
So let's see. By the time he was nominated, Clarence
Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General's office, served as
an Assistant Secretary of Education, run the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission and sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of
Appeals, the nation's second most prominent court. Since his
"elevation" to the High Court in 1991, he has also shown himself to be
a principled and scholarly jurist.
Meanwhile, as he bids to be America's Commander in
Chief, Mr. Obama isn't
yet four years out of the Illinois state Senate,
has never held a hearing of note of his U.S. Senate subcommittee, and
had an unremarkable record as both a "community organizer" and law
school lecturer. Justice Thomas's judicial credentials compare
favorably to Mr. Obama's Presidential résumé by any measure. And when
it comes to rising from difficult circumstances, Justice Thomas's rural
Georgian upbringing makes Mr. Obama's story look like easy street. (MORE . . . )