Après le président 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.

Comme Andrew Coyne blogué pour Macleans.ca:

C'est juste. Alors. Embarrassant. S'il n'y a 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.

Dans le Globe and Mail, journaliste Margaret Wente écrit:

Salutations, M.. Président!

Bienvenue au Canada! I can’t tell you how thrilled we are that you are coming up to see us, si juste pour le déjeuner. A en juger par la frénésie des médias, votre visite classe juste là-haut avec la Seconde Venue. My girlfriends haven’t been this excited since the Beatles came to town (not that you’d remember them). Ils, trop, were more popular than Jesus.

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

Excitation à Ottawa around the presidential visit n'aurait pas pu être plus had the guest of honour been Mick Jagger, la reine ou le Père Noël.

Au moins Obama a donné un peu d'amour de retour à ses nouveaux amis canadiens. “I love this country,” he said, “and I don’t think we could have a better friend and ally.”