Axelrod: "Why didn’t the waters part.....that will take at least a few weeks".

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White House Jokes "Ills of World" Will Take "A Few Weeks" to Fix

April 07, 2009 4:58 AM

Calling the President's eight-day sojourn to Europe "enormously productive," David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Obama, joked about the high expectations for the trip

Saying that the "premise" of a reporters' question about the success and failures of the president's first international trip "was: 'Why didn’t the waters part, the sun shine, and all the ills of the world disappear because President Obama came to Europe this week?'" Axelrod said, "that wasn’t our expectation."

"That will take at least a few weeks," he joked.

more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/white-house-jok.html

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"Throughout the campaign, the President spoke about the need to repair out(sic) relationships in the world, to mend our frayed alliances and begin again a dialogue with our allies and discussions with our adversaries to try to move America’s agenda forward, to try to make our country safer, to set the conditions for a better future," said the mustachioed Chicagoan. "We feel that we’ve taken a great step forward on this trip. The President has had the chance to establish personal relationships with leaders of many countries, with leaders who are gong to be important to us in promoting Americas interest in the world and the world’s security in the future."