Президент следующих 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.

Как Эндрю Койн блоге для Macleans.ca:

Это Просто. Так. Неловко. Если есть 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.

В Глоб энд мейл, columnist Маргарет Венте написал:

Привет, Г-н. Президент!

Добро пожаловать в Канаду! I can’t tell you how thrilled we are that you are coming up to see us, если только на обед. Судя по безумие СМИ, Ваш визит оценивает право там со вторым пришествием. My girlfriends haven’t been this excited since the Beatles came to town (not that you’d remember them). Они, слишком, were more popular than Jesus.

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

Волнение в Оттаве around the presidential visit не могло быть больше had the guest of honour been Мик Джаггер, Королева или Санта-Клаус.

По крайней мере Обама дал некоторую любовь назад к своим новым канадских друзей. “I love this country,” he said, “and I don’t think we could have a better friend and ally.”