If we ever can't get along with New Zealand, we've really got big problems!Things are OK now. But for quite a while, the US systematically punished NZ for its anti-nuclear stance. A free trade deal was blocked for years- NZ was able to strike deals with China and Russia before the US would budge. Just for interest, see
http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=3516 ;-) FWIW I'm not sure whether NZ even appears on Obama's radar, especially in view of all the local difficulties as well as the protectionist farming lobbies in the US.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
