Following President Obama’s one-day whirlwind visit to Ottawa yesterday, which was accompanied by much gushing in the Canadian press, several commentators are wondering whether Canadians might love the new U.S. leader a little too much.

As Andrew Coyne blogged for Macleans.ca:

This is Just. So. Embarrassing. If there is anything less attractive than the anti-American streak in our national character — a trait made worse, one suspects, for our neighbours’ sunny indifference to our seething — it is our tendency to prostrate ourselves before American celebrities. And they don’t get any more celebritous than Barack Obama.

In the Globe and Mail, columnist Margaret Wente wrote:

Greetings, Mr. President!

Welcome to Canada! I can’t tell you how thrilled we are that you are coming up to see us, if only just for lunch. Judging by the media frenzy, your visit ranks right up there with the Second Coming. My girlfriends haven’t been this excited since the Beatles came to town (not that you’d remember them). They, too, were more popular than Jesus.

And writing in the Vancouver Sun, reporter Barbara Yaffe contended that:

Excitement in Ottawa around the presidential visit could not have been greater had the guest of honour been Mick Jagger, the Queen or Santa Claus.

At least Obama gave some love back to his new Canadian friends. “I love this country,” he said, “and I don’t think we could have a better friend and ally.”