He arrives at the hearing in the last minutes and then attempts to show he's smarter than Ambassador Bolton by being smarmy and condescending. He looked like the doofus he is. It was one of the greatest smackdowns I've ever seen. I could watch it over and over again.
"He arrives at the hearing in the last minutes and then attempts to show he's smarter than Ambassador Bolton by being smarmy and condescending."
Kerry probably reckoned he'd have a 5% chance of coming across smarter than Bolton, and decided to go for it. Bad move.