You Selfish Bastards! Aren't you ashamed?

St. Olaf is a small Minnesota college that describes itself as "a college of the church where conversations about faith are part of campus life." This is in the same state that elected pink-boa-wearing, ex-wrestler Jesse Ventura governor and the dignity of the political establishment is best exemplified by Senator Paul Wellstone's funeral that turned into an unseemly political rally.

So, you expect an opinion piece entitled "The real US healthcare issue: compassion deficiency" by a St. Olaf Professor of Philosphy written in the increasingly non-religious and bizarre Christian Science Monitor to say that the reason we dissenters don't want Obamacare is we have a compassion deficit.

The healthcare debate has revealed that Americans suffer from a compassion deficiency. Many of us would prefer that our fellow citizens go without medical care rather than make even the slightest of sacrifices.

Gordon Marino looks pretty much like what you would expect someone who writes,

While President Obama insists that changes in our medical system will not require middle-class tax hikes, it is plain that many fear reform will cost them.

Apparently, there are a lot of folks who would choose to have young mothers with cancer go without chemotherapy, instead of giving up a bit of that disposable income that is our badge of freedom and individualism.

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Of course, the Christian Science Monitor doesn't tell you that Marino writes regularly for the Huffington Post. (archives)

After Obama's election, Marino was ecstatic and his frothy prose celebrated the victory. "On the morning after the election I took half an hour to listen to the waves of history lap against my college student's shores." He concluded with this tear-wrenching observation:

I was thinking about something else that seemed too corny to share. I was imagining that maybe now Americans of every hue might think and call upon one another in those terms of endearment that have long resonated in the black community, those sweet terms of address that amongst African-Americans have echoed across the chasms of class and opinion, terms that whites have envied but never dared to use-- the terms brother and sister.

That's how out of touch the Tupac Shakur-quoting Marino is.

What sweet "endearments that have long resonated in the black community"? In December 1993, Shakur and others were charged with sexually abusing a woman in a hotel room. According to the complaint, Shakur sodomized the woman and then encouraged his friends to sexually abuse her. Shakur was sentenced to one-and-a-half year to four-and-a-half year. Suge Knight, CEO of Death Row Records, got the rapper out of prison. Shakur ended up dying like a lot of black men. Shot by other black men.

But, hey, isn't that the goal of white Liberals who impose Sheila Jackson on blacks in Houston and Maxine Waters on blacks in Watts in Los Angeles? Remember the erratic Cynthia McKinney who was so strange the Democrats dumped her?

How about the ethically-challenged whacko Charles Rangel? The recently-convicted William Jefferson (D-Lousiana)? Or the powerful head of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, who doesn't think reading the health bill would do any good. The same John Conyers whose wife, Monica, chairwoman of the Detroit City Council, recently plead guilty to bribery?