The President tells Coleman "Let me finish..." at least five or six times. That is as close to confrontation as he gets.
Here, in a nutshell, is the entire ideological confrontation between the USA and the liberal-socialist axis. Socialists articulate their pathological reactions to momentary impressions using loaded language calculated infer the worst possible image of the USA, and instead of unambiguous disdain, confronting the premises and refuting the conclusions as any good teacher would with a disruptive student radical, Bush tries to picture us as the nicest people you'd ever want to meet.
This affability presumes several premises, the most obvious being, "Hey, why are you upset at us for? We agree on basically the same things. We're here to help the least fortunate. We are the most altruistic nation on Earth, we're spending 15 billion dollars on AIDS..." etcetera, ad nauseum.
Bush and the GOP don't get it. When two groups who share the same basic premise compete, the most zealous always wins. By assenting to the same basic premises of liberal-socialism, Bush loses even before the contest begins.
One cannot make friends with these people. The Euro-scum despise the basic ideology of this country, they despise the Declaration, and Bush is unable to articulate what the principles of this country are, much less confront and refute their enemies.
Instead, he tries to lay a burden on their hearts through affability, in the hopes, I guess, that they finally make their way to the altar in contrite humility while the choir plays "Just As I Am."
Would Reagan have stood for this Euro-scum crap?
Do you know of any other copy of the interview, my computer can't download the recorded interview
True. This political strategy of "OK, I'll urinate on the Constitution, but I refuse to wipe my butt with it!" is not going to be a long term winner for the GOP.