While Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were slinging mud here in the United States, Little Georgie Tush was playing in that great sandbox in the Middle East with all of his Daddy’s pals, OK, and some who aren’t.

Little Georgie wasn't very happy to be on the trip, you could tell. To keep from getting grumpy it’s his habit to retire early, well, not early enough - bada bing - and the rare overseas trip was playing havoc with his sleep routine. Oh, but what a guy won’t do to save his legacy.

Religiously-bent on seeing that the Israeli's and the Palestinian's stop their “little dust-up in the desert,” Little Georgie and his team were willing to pull out all the stops, including a visit to the Hall of Remembrance in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem where a photo-op showed Little Georgie wearing his little yarmalka.

His Grandfather Prescott Bush, once accused of collaborating with the Nazis before Pearl Harbor, must have been rolling in his grave at the sight of his Little Georgie standing next to the Jewish State’s leaders. And his father, George the First, was probably none to pleased about the odd legacy his son is reaching for as his own relationship with the Jewish community during his reign was hardly stella-Dallas, Texas.

To balance things out, and make his Arab playmates happy, Little Georgie visited Ramallah, in the Palestinian territories, but poor little rich boy, Georgie, didn’t look comfortable visiting the wrong side of the tracks. Still, he was willing to do it…you know…that legacy thing. And honestly, it would be wonderful if Little Georgie can broker a peace agreement. It’s probably a sandman’s dream, but after Tush's nearly-eight years of mass destruction, the President of the United States can offer nothing but dreams. Where have we heard about dreams before?

So with that something in his pocket called hopes and dreams, Little Georgie headed off to more familiar territory and landed in Saudi Arabia, home of the terrorists and home of his "Uncle" Abdullah to sell the King some arms – about $123 million dollars worth of sophisticated precision-guided bomb technology, despite concerns from some corners of the world, namely Israel, that the bang-bang could be used against them.

The not-so-brilliant Democratic-led Congress is likely to approve the deal as part of a multibillion-dollar arms package to bolster the defense of U.S. allies in the Gulf. Rep. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee appears ready to go along with the program even as the arms deal creates a dilemma for lawmakers, especially for Democrats who would do anything to throw sand on the President, particularly over his foreign policy.

At the same time, they see Saudi Arabia's cooperation as crucial to the war on terror and in deterring aggression from Iran. I think they have too much sand in their eyes.

But back to Little Georgie and his little way of thinking; I guess he thought that if he gave the Saudi’s what they wanted, they’d play in the sandbox and lower the price of oil so that maybe America’s economy wouldn’t GAS-tank any worse than it already has.

Apparently Mama Tush never taught her son who to pick for friends. “Saudi Arabia will raise oil production only when the market justifies it,” the kingdom's oil minister said Tuesday, in response to President Bush's begging that the OPEC nations increase output to reduce world oil prices.

"Our interest is to keep oil supplies matching demand with minimum volatility in the oil market," Oil Minister Ali Naimi told reporters. "We will raise production when the market justifies it. This is our policy."

Question: Is mudslinging the same as throwing sand in your face?

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