Maybe he can still endorse a Big Lots elf

John Kerry is canceling appearances with Democratic candidates and needs some serious PR counsel after telling some college students in California, “Education—if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.” The Vietnam veteran and failed 2004 presidential candidate has already fallen back on his service record and claimed he made a joke that was mangled in translation, but he just digs himself in deeper.