다음 대통령 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.

로 앤드류 코인 에 대한 블로그 Macleans.ca:

이것은 단지. 그래서. 당황. 가있는 경우 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.

에 글로브와 메일, 특약 기고가 마가렛 Wente 작성:

인사말, 씨. 대통령!

캐나다에 오신 것을 환영합니다! I can’t tell you how thrilled we are that you are coming up to see us, 단지 점심을 경우에만. 미디어 열풍에 의해 판단, 귀하의 방문은 재림과 바로가 차지. My girlfriends haven’t been this excited since the Beatles came to town (not that you’d remember them). 사람들, 너무, were more popular than Jesus.

And writing in the 밴쿠버 일, reporter Barbara Yaffe contended that:

오타와의 흥분 around the presidential visit 더 컸을 수 없습니다 had the guest of honour been 믹 재거, 여왕 산타 클로스.

적어도 오바마는 다시 사랑을 좀했다 그의 새로운 캐나다 친구에게. “I love this country,” he said, “and I don’t think we could have a better friend and ally.”