Talk about a bad day.
The President got the 3 a.m. phone call (you do remember Hillary’s campaign ad, don’t you) informing him that North Korea fired on South Korea.
Besides creating a threat to world peace, the act of aggression sucked all of the oxygen out of the day’s news cycle.
That hurt, because O was heading for Kokomo to cheerlead the recovering economy and do a GM-IPO victory dance.
Oops.
Then the Fed announces that it’s cutting its growth forecast for 2010 and 2011.
To make matters even worse, Gov’t Motors shares tumbled about a buck, heading down below last weeks offering price.
Then the coup de grace: Zogby releases polling results showing the President’s approval rating dipping below the Mendoza Line.
In baseball, a .200 batting average is nicknamed the “Mendoza Line”.
A batting average below the Mendoza Line is considered unqualified for the pros, even if a player has strong fielding skills.
The Presidential equivalent is an approval rating of 40%
Well, according to the latest Zogby poll, Pres Obama has fallen below the Presidential Mendoza line.
Uh-oh.
http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1924
Other – more reliable polls – peg Obama’s approval in the mid-40s … so, I take Zogby with a grain of salt.
But, the Zogby results give me an opportunity to talk about the Mendoza Line … an opportunity that just can’t be passed up.
The Homa Files 
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