Goff for New Zealander of the Year?

Matthew Hooton writes in the SST that Phil Goff should be a contender for New Zealander of the Year if in 2008 he managed to achieve both the completion of a comprehensive free trade agreement with China, and an agreement to negotiate with the United States.

He concludes:

How ironic if a combination of communist China, the right-wing Bush administration and Clark’s impatient heir apparent, Goff, were to conspire to create the issue to give her some hope of a fourth term.

I am delighted Clark has been such a supporter of free trade and the China deal is looking to be a good one as it doesn’t have lots of exclusions unlike the Aus-US deal which was more in name than substance.