I know Zogby is a poling group that leans right on every topic. I can tell this also by the way the questions are phrased.

Zogby International is an independent polling firm. We have been called left; we have been called right, and everything in between. Although we have done work for political groups on both ends of the spectrum, we are an independent polling firm and our only agenda is to find out and report what Americans are really thinking.

Generally, I think Zogby is fairly objective in the questions it asks and the way they are stated. I do, however, take exception to the question raised about whether we should be “proud” or “ashamed” of Obama as a president. Although I thought George W. Bush was among our poorest and most inept presidents, I don’t think I would ever consider being ashamed of him as a criteria for judging his performance. Just as I would never insist that either George H. Bush or Ronald Reagan be forbidden to talk to school kids as some clearly paranoid and very zealous right wingers did with President Obama. To me, this sort of censorship is more the product of closed and brainwashed societies such as Germany under Hitler and the Soviet Union under Stalin. To my mind, such paranoia is the antithesis of what education in a free and open society should be.

By the way, both Papa Bush and Reagan did talk to school kids during their administrations and their speeches are accessible on line. Any side-by-side comparison of their speeches with President Obama’s will show that their talks were far more partisan than Obama’s. The only complain about them in this regard came afterward, so there was no attempt at censoring an American president as there surely was with Obama. How ironic that some of these same people who would muffle dissent are such ardent supporters of the Constitution and its safeguards to “freedom of speech.” I guess it matters whether the speech that must be free must also agree with their politics.