Helen Clark’s carping comments about Bill Clinton cheapen her but do nothing to lessen the impact of APEC, according to National MP Annabel Young.

“Clark must be completely self-obsessed if the only idea she has about APEC is that she didn’t get a private meeting with the President of the United States.”

“APEC is the biggest Foreign Affairs event in New Zealand in my life-time. It was a terrific success. Clark should congratulate the Prime Minister and all the people from Foreign Affairs, the Police, Armed Forces and Trade personnel who made it all work."

“Instead Clark is carping on about how important she is and complaining that she thinks that the President of the United States should have come to Wellington to see her. What planet is Helen Clark on?” asked Annabel Young. “We are lucky he came to New Zealand. He sent his Vice President to the last APEC.”

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>