"The question was perfectly sensible to anybody who's been paying attention. I didn't have to think about it, and as I pointed out, almost nobody (except Palin) gave it a second thought, until this ridiculous ex-post-facto argument was handed down by the spinmeisters."

If it doesn't require any thought, I wonder how would Robert answer the question.
["Does Robert agree with the Bush doctrine?"]

Additionally, obviously, Robert isn't running for VP or President, but if he could craft a response for Palin or Obama what would that response be?

So, it's two questions [or 3 if you want to give a separate response for Obama and Palin] .

Based on what you said, this shouldn't require much thought.

And btw, to repeat what I posted elsewhere in this thread:
"Bush Doctrine
The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan.[1] Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the invasion of Iraq), a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism, and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way.[2][3][4] Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine