How low can she go?

April 25, 2008 | by David Steven | More on North America | No comments

It’s not just Australia that’s been getting it in the neck this week, New Zealand’s PM, Helen Clark, has been compared to a cockroach by Hilary Clinton, in another deft display of foreign policy experience.

This from an interview with Newsweek:

You have any good jokes?
Here’s a good one. Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand: her opponents have observed that in the event of a nuclear war, the two things that will emerge from the rubble are the cockroaches and Helen Clark. [Laughs]

Ho ho.

Clark has been rather good-natured about the cockroach comparison, but less impressed by the reference to her being a ‘former’ Prime Minister. She advised Hilary to have a word with her husband:

As a current prime minister I spoke with him as a former US president in London only two weeks ago.

I wonder if Clinton’s got it in for other female leaders as well - or is it just Clark she doesn’t like?

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