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The New York Office

by Whaleoil on December 8, 2011

Quite apart from the fact that the NZ Herald thinks Helen Clark should be a finalist in New Zealander of the Year award there is this little gem buried in teh article:

From her New York base, Clark is never far from her Kiwi roots. She stays in touch using Skype, Facebook, Twitter, news websites, phones, and email.

“There’s not much I don’t hear about from family and friends,” she says.

Take it as read that she has more than a passing interest in the battle to succeed Phil Goff as Labour Party leader. Contender David Cunliffe has acknowledged that he had a discussion with Clark about the job, but she remains tight-lipped.

Asked if she had a pick, she replied: “Not for public consumption.”

No but the clues are there. Spoken with Cunners, orchestrated Brian Edwards flipflop, involvement of the Kabul office…

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  • Peter Wilson

    Interesting, that with Shearer’s background in the UN, Clarke is not backing him. Seems there is politics in the UN, just like everywhere else.

    With Goff backing him, Shearer would seem to be on the right wing of the Labour Party, which would be a disaster for Labour. The only thing that saved National with the bad luck they had under English was going back to it’s roots.

    • Troy

      That bitch and her lesbo girlfriend Heather have had their hooks in all over the Labour party since they both left the shared leadership of it. 

  • Gazzaw

    Lets never forget that Clark’s interest in NZ’s future is inextricably linked to her own personal ambitions. Her entire political career has been motivated by self interest and personal advancement. Who between Cunners & Shearer in the event of becoming PM can deliver most to her advancement at the UN eg increased aid, higher refugee intake. And looking further down the road who can convert NZ into a republic quickest so that when she retires from the UN & look forward to a sinecure as NZ’s first president (or in her case fuhrer).  

  • Lesley

    I thought you were joking at first but it is true. NZ Herald has named Helen Clark as a finalist for NZer of the year and she hasn’t even been here! IMO the award should go to Sam Johnson – the young man who led the Student Volunteer Army during the dark days following the Christchurch earthquake. (And it still is in action). He wanted no glory for himself but just wanted to help those who were in distress. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10770913

    • Jester

      I would have thought a grand choice for NZer of the year would be some one who encompasses mainstream NZ. To give Labour a win this year I’m going to vote for a poster child for the Labour movement.

      All I need is a candidate that is a union inspired teacher, living in a civil union with his partner who is so inspired by Helen that he proudly carries her picture on his facebook page.

      If only Kosh had a limp he would tick all the boxes.

  • Kosh103

    Wow,  Clark keeps in touch with family and friends and has an opinion about the party she lead for a number of years.

    And then the right go into over drive about these amazing facts.

    Tin foil hats for sale – half price for right wingers.

    • Agent BallSack

      Yes Clark keeps in touch with her family – hardly New Zealander of the Year material though is it Kosh? Or is the left so fucked that anyone who shows any familial loyalty now elected to sainthood? Or perhaps all the reports on how negative New Zealand is, we should be rewarding her for that? Please explain Kosh, you have all the answers on all things left.

    • Steve (north shore)

      who pays full price for tin foil hats? Certainly not the leftards, they have a pemanent tin foil hat paid for by the taxpayer usualy.
      Container load was on it’s way to Auckland, but got stuck on a reef

  • http://twitter.com/Orcs2Elves Monique Watson

    It’s a cult I tells you. And you can’t have a cult without a charismatic leader. Labour needs the contact as a security blanket and our ex PM may have the empty nest syndrome. I don’t know about preparing for a presidential reign but the expression, “balls deep in great dane”, comes to mind.
    Def’n: Charisma –
    compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in other.

  • Honcho

    Eddie Dawkin for New Zealander of the year.

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/sport/4681510/I-m-from-NZ-and-we-don-t-feel-pain-Dawkins

    Helen isn’t a New Zealander, someone who even cared about this country would not have done what she did to it during her time in power.

  • Rockyr

    Andrew STONE the reporter seemed to miss this aspirational goal out when eulogising the former  tyrant http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/42115

  • H2

    To think that a then PM would lobby for young women to sell their bodies into prostitution, as well as selling NZ down the drain by disbanding the Privy Council.Her, Clark  NZ of the year by the Herald ,that hypocritical bunch of numbskulls, call themselves journalists, more like Liebor sycophants and ass lickers.