country and meanwhile the latest "usa today" gallup shows that he has hit a record low in his approval ratings, 41% of americans say they approve of the job he is doing and, so, could it show the whole blame bush strategy is not working, perhaps? guess who is here, alan colmes, a host of the fox radio show, the alan colmes show and, i bet the president at this point would be happy to switch his age, of his birthday and his approval ratings. >> i'd love to wish him a happy birthday and people are saying it's not really his birthday. but, look his ratings are similar, to -- gallup pointed out, ronald reagan went down to 35% at one point and george w. bush's ratings were, so low and you can look at it as a snapshot or a marathon, not a sprint. martha: it is. >> takes a long time to go through the changes. martha: that is an excellent point an presidencies have all kind of ebbs and flows in them, as we have seen, but the biggest