Bush not vindictive? PLEASE!

Gore meets Bush, declares it 'cordial... substantive'

In his private Oval Office meeting with President Bush, the former vice president insisted that they had spoken about global warming “the whole time.” It wasn’t clear if the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who shared the honor for his work on climtate change, was serious.[..]

But Gore, calling the meeting with Bush “very cordial” and “substantive,” declined to elaborate on their meeting. “I’m not going to do an interview here,” Gore said in his walk down the streets outside the White House. “I don’t want to comment more.”[..]

Gore also has been outspoken in his criticism for other administration policies, most notably the war in Iraq.

The White House insists the president holds no ill will toward Gore, who carried his challenge of the outcome of the 2000 election to the Supreme Court.

“I don’t believe so,” Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino said of any “bad blood” between the two. “I know this president does not harbor any resentments. He never has.”

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If anyone’s entitled to feel resentment it’s Gore, who was cheated out of what he rightfully won.

And Bush sure as hell does feel resentment. He’s extremely petty and vindictive.

Here’s an example:

In early April 1986, Bush ran into Al Hunt, then the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau chief, at a Mexican restaurant in Dallas, where Hunt was dining with his wife, Judy Woodruff, and their 4-year-old son. The April edition of Washingtonian magazine had come out featuring 16 pundits predicting who would lead the 1988 GOP ticket. Hunt had predicted Jack Kemp over Vice President Bush. (Only half the group said Bush would be the nominee.)

Hunt said Bush approached the table and began cursing at him in front of his child. Hunt said there was no doubt that Bush had been drinking heavily.

“You [expletive] son of a bitch,” Hunt quotes Bush as saying. “I saw what you wrote. We’re not going to forget this.”

Bush “apologized” a mere ten years after this incident. And please note that it wasn’t Hunt and Woodruff who brought up the incident, but Bill Minutaglio, a Dallas Morning News reporter. Some “liberal media bias.”