Foster rides into the fray
Who is the man on the horse?
Why, it’s Foster Friess, the über-Republican investor and philanthropist with a heart big enough to match his ego.
Foster isn’t shy about sharing his opinions. He has a Web site devoted to promoting his ideas on reforming education, health care, the legal system, taxes and immigration, among other topics.
He cares, and I like that about him. His generosity is motivated by his deeply held Christian beliefs.
Foster joins the community dialogue on the Jackson Peace Rally with a full-page ad in this week’s Planet (page 17) and a new Web venture.
Long before earning gazillions in the stock market with his Brandywine Fund, Foster was a journalist at a small-town newspaper. He has returned to those roots by starting a blog, Gather Around the Campfire, in which he invites the community to discuss the Iraq War and what he perceives as the larger war against Islamic jihadism.
The blog is pretty cool, with a video by Foster greeting visitors. He urges everyone to watch a movie about Islamic jihadists, called Obsession. I haven’t seen it yet, but I might look into it.
But after watching Foster’s introduction, one question came to mind: Does it ever dawn on him that the fundamentalist fervor of Christian Crusaders appears just as threatening to the Muslim world as Islamic extremists appear to the West?
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August 30th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Christians, Muslims, skiers, beer drinkers, which tribe are you a part of? Which tribe has done the most damage to the world? Why is organized religion so highly regarded by some and hated by others? Could it be that religion is really only someone’s opinion? Whatever, I’m drunk.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
I’m in the tribe of beer-drinking pagan skiers who respect all religions, if you’ve got to have one.
September 2nd, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Hey Jim,
See that you and Foster have got a little friendly dust-up going on.
I’ve got a couple of questions for you guys: Does civil discourse and debate, as FF is advocating he wants to be an honest broker of, include respecting and agreeing on reality-based, empirical facts?
Or, is the goal for you two and others who are engaging in Foster’s forum really a sort of high-brow pissing match over warring ideologies that’s more about each side rallying their supporters, and seeing who can draw greater applause for their respective debating points, than a genuine dialectic where each side tries to prove their arguments are best, because they’re demonstrating their greater command of the incontrovertible, factual truth?
Just wondering, keep up the battle cry,
–The Cowboy Times
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Jim:
I agree with Foster that it is important to have intellectual and open debate about issues facing our society I only wish I had the money to buy an entire page to voice my opinions. I am not sure why the opinion column of the Jackson News and Guide is not good enough for Foster. Seems a little one sided. Doesn’t Foster help to make the point that we need change in the way our democracy debates issues - the way we elect our politicians, etc.
Jerry