What is so "gutless" about that statement? My only complaint about that statement is that it is so utterly ignorant. The U.S. would still be "vulnerable" to global oil prices even if we didn't import a single drop of foreign oil.
It's exactly what he's been saying... for the last six years. Have we seen ANY progress whatsoever? We have not.
My point is this: We voted for someone who claimed to be a leader. What we got instead was a politician. Ditto for the House and Senate. Our country is weaker because of an utter lack of will on the part of our republican't "leadership"... and the political weakness of the republicans is illustrated by our current gas prices.
We hold a do-nothing view of Clinton, who for nearly a decade bemoaned the ills of the social security system but did nothing to fix it. Bush is ineffective as a doer, and his spinelessness and disconnect from the American people echoes his father's administration. I pray that he will get off his a$$, grow a pair, and use the last two years of his office to do something, anything, to reverse the slide of our country.