PARIS, July 23 (UPI) -- When the world changes these days, it really changes fast. The new vogue word in Europe is "Obamania" -- the thrilled and delirious welcome that awaits the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee in Berlin, Paris and London.

The word "Obamania" was first spotted in the German magazine Der Spiegel. Then it was picked up by France's Liberation and then a BBC blog and on the France Inter radio news, and suddenly it was everywhere.

But the most telling use of the word came (according to Christoph von Marschall, U.S. bureau chief of Germany's Der Tagesspiegel) from one of Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisers, explaining to him why there would be no interview with the candidate: "Why should we take the time for foreign media, since there is Obamania around the world?"

It seems like only yesterday the big theme was the growth of anti-Americanism in Europe, the resentment that led to the reassessment of traditional alliances with the country that former French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine called "the hyper-power."

Europe's media and chattering classes ticked off their reasons to dislike a country that was too rich, too fat, too powerful, too greedy, too prone to religiosity, violence, the death penalty, gas-guzzling and putting black people in prison. Oh yes, and far too militarist in its liking for invading smaller countries and spending more on defense than the rest of the world combined.