Why does this stuff always come out after the election?

Not that it matters now, but it turns out that Joe the anti-redistributionist plumber got help from welfare twice as a child, and says it helped his family work its way into the middle class and become productive taxpayers. That’s exactly how welfare is supposed to work -- if Joe actually paid his taxes, that is.

And more disturbingly, it looks like Sarah Palin was even less fit for the vice-president than we ever imagined. She couldn’t name the countries that have signed in to NAFTA (hint: there are only three, and they’re all in North America) and didn’t realize that Africa is a continent, not a country. If this were something on Jay Leno’s “Jaywalking'” segment, it would be funny. But knowing that this women came so close to the White House is scary.

(Both videos are from Fox, because me conservative friends wouldn’t believe it if any other network aired it.)