In what was described as the most important moment of his life, Barack Obama officially accepted the Democratic Party's presidential nomination last night.

While some people were seeking one of Obama's soaring, rhetoric-filled speeches, last night's showing spelled out his presidential plans as he told the roaring crowd he would "restore America's promise." And, yes, it was inspiring.

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Oh, George Michael, you so crazy!

Despite last year's announcement that his days as a pop star were behind him, Georgie Boy took to the stage again in Barcelona. Though he got off to a slow start, things picked up along the way, particularly when he sang his contentious anti-GW song, "Shoot the Dog."

As he belted it out, an inflatable President Bush arose from the stage and with a yank of his zipper, a British bulldog's hind bits were revealed. Where was the rest of Union Jack draped pup? In Bush's pants, apparently giving him a blowie. (A not really that clever shot at Blair's support of Bushie, we guess.)

Whatever, we don't really care about this, but we thought someone out there may. (Plus, we like the picture.) We do wonder, however, why Bush is holding a glass of booze and a cigar. It's been ages since we partied with him, but didn't he get sober and all that?

We're really at the point where we truly don't know what to say about Mr. Bush. By now, it's pretty obvious that Bush isn't a popular president. The Claymates approve of Clay Gayken more than Americans approve of Bush at this point. When Gayken is beating you, well, that's just sad. Logically, you'd think a 34% approval rating would make you want to get your shit together. Clearly, logic isn't taken into consideration within Bush's brain.

We had our doubts about Bush's initial comments around Katrina, and videotape released now confirm that Bush was well aware of the potentially devastating effects of Katrina prior to the levees breaking. The video shows Bush being told the day before Katrina hit that the levees were likely to fail. The tape fully contradicts Bush's earliest comments, "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees" made four days after the hurricane struck. New Orleans mayor, Ray Nagin had a few thoughts per this most recent discovery:

It surprises me that if there was that kind of awareness, why was the response so slow? I have kind of a sinking feeling right now in my gut. I mean, I was listening to what people were saying and I was believing them that they didn't know. So therefore it was an issue of a learning curve. From this tape it looks like everybody was fully aware.

We can only wait to see what scare tactic Bush will utilize to get himself out of this one. Maybe the Claymates should sue Bush for lying to us instead of Gayken. Gayken boned a man. Bush continues to bone America.

N.Orleans mayor "shocked" by pre-Katrina Bush tape [AlertNet]
Video shows Bush being told of levee problems [iol]

If we had a dollar for every mistake this administration has made, Bill Gates and his extreme richness would be no longer. We hate to be Debbie-downer, but we think its common knowledge that the Bush administration has had its fair share of blunders, mistakes, mishaps…however you’d like to refer to them. They throw all kinds of shade. Arguably, this is the most stunningly incompetent administration in this country’s history…and that’s us being nice.

This administration is so incompetent that you can throw a dart at the front page of your morning paper and whatever story of importance it hits will prove my point.

For those of you who need the proof, check out this amazing collection of the administrations ever-increasing blunders. Get the Kleenex out now.

Who's Counting Bush's Mistakes? [Alter Net]

We’ve been remiss in not addressing the disturbing news from our neighbors up north. Canada has just elected its own George W. Bush and things don’t look so good for The Gays. Our reader Andrew sent this to us earlier this week.

Thought you might be interested in the sad turn of events in last night's Canadian election: the Conservatives (Canadian equivalent to the American Republicans) won a minority government. As a queer Canadian, this worries me a great deal. Stephen Harper, our Prime Minister elect, plans on repealing the marriage act so as to not include same-sex couples in the act, and instead only granting separate civil unions for same sex couples. As you can imagine, same sex marriage is something that many Canadians worked very hard to achieve. I simply cannot believe that we will be turning back time not to mention Stephen Harper turning his back on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in order to exclude same sex couples from the institution of marriage.

Enough with my monologue. I just thought that you, or your readers might be interested in the sad, and what seems to me to be a step backward for Canada, and lefties in North-America — although I'm certain that Dubya will be pleased.

We found an article that appears to show Mr. Harper has more in common with Spongebob Squarepants, than he does with Dubya. Except Spongebob is way cuter.

Is Stephen Harper a closet homosexual? [Valley Skeptic]

Easter’s just about to get a lot gayer. Each year on the Monday after Easter, kids and their parents gather on the South Lawn of the White House for the Easter Egg Roll with the one and only Easter Bunny (no, we don’t mean Karl Rove). Gay religious activist group Soulforce has sent an e-mail to its members asking LGTB families to be first in line for the festivities.

According to Soulforce, "LGBT" participants are being urged to gather at the White House gate the night before so as to be the first to enter the next morning. Volunteers will stand in line for "LGBT" parents who cannot do it themselves. Although Soulforce insists this will not be a political protest, only a gathering for families, its supporters will arrive with special "non-political" t-shirts to identify themselves as “LGTB.”

Aside from the T-shirt thing (Fox News will have an editing field day with that) we think it’s a great idea. Just a word of caution: If you go, keep your kids away from the man in the bunny suit. We’re pretty sure it’ll be Dick Cheney.

A Gay Easter [Weekly Standard]
Soulforce [Official Site}

Soon to be fired (we assume) P.R. guru for the Bush campaigns as well as hired-gun for Mexican President Vicente Fox, Rob Allyn’s firm Allyn and Company has been spooning with gay and lesbian P.R. firm Fleishman-Hilliard.

Completely unbiased website The Conservative Voice gives us all the gooey, late-night details:

Besides being the president of Allyn & Company, he serves as co-chair of Vox Global Mandate, which was launched by Fleishman-Hilliard. Vox is a self-described international political advocacy group which is instrumental in providing positive media coverage for gay rights, abortion, anti-tort reform, federalization of healthcare, and other issues. Allyn himself backs legalized abortion, gay marriage and government controlled healthcare. He also opposes tort reform. Yet, he and his supporters continue to claim he's a Republican strategist and a conservative.

Healthcare? Gay Marriage? Other Issues? How could they even let this pinko lefty anywhere near the Bush Whitehouse? Oh, right, they have no morals or core beliefs and will do whatever it takes to win, even if that means hiring a big bad supporter of the oogly-woogly gay agenda.

Bush, Vicente Fox Advisor Rob Allyn Tied to Gay and Lesbian Activist Group [The Conservative Voice]

Seems like the Pentagon spied on several LGTB groups after 9/11, even going so far as to call a University of California protest against the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy - where students protested with a “gay kissing” demonstration – a “credible threat."

No word on why the Military considered the pouty lipped protestors a threat, but the news comes on the heels of recent acknowledgements by Dubya that he spied on plenty of other Americans over the last few years.

NBC News was able to obtain only eight pages of the 400-page report, but that small portion showed that Pentagon investigators kept tabs on April protests at the University of California, Santa Cruz; State University of New York at Albany; and William Patterson College in New Jersey. A February protest at NYU was also listed, along with the law school's gay advocacy group OUTlaw, and was classified as "possibly violent."

And people wonder why Osama bin Laden got away.

U.S. military appears to be spying on "don't ask, don't tell" protests [The Advocate]

• Tampons frighten the gay men we know. But women and men, Jew or not should get a kick out of this. Time to make the Tampon Menorah. Via Gawker. [Tampon Crafts]

• The Gays love the Wizard of Oz. They hate the Wizard of Oil. This is a funny read. [Dudehisattva]

• Gay.com selects Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as its Person of the Year. Time to book a flight to Madrid to celebrate. [Gay.com]

• There is a transit strike in NYC. But it's not affecting the Queerty staff. We sit chained at our computer all day delivering the gay news for you, the readers. We don’t get out anyway. [Reuters]

• A bunch of pretty boy gays showed up at a pretty boy bar in pretty boy Los Angeles to fete a book about naked pretty boys. We still don’t get why it was on Gridskipper though. [Gridskipper]

Bruce Vilanch recently took time from his busy schedule to chat with Bradford Shellhammer about the blogs he reads, the Bush administration, and this year’s Oscars. He also dishes on a few of our favorite divas.

Ok. Hi Bruce. We at Queerty love you. And we are sad we missed your show Almost Famous 2005 in San Francisco. What did we miss?

Full-frontal nudity. The first three rows had to move back.

You have so many projects lined up. Tell us about Queer Duck?

I play myself. It's a stretch. But it's never gotten in Jerry Seinfeld's way. This is a feature-length version of the cartoons that used to follow Queer as Folk on Showtime. They once had me pop in as a guest joke, and we all thought that this time I should do the voice instead of Mercedes McCambridge.

And Celebrity Fit Club! This is one of our guilty pleasures. We only wish you were on the same season at Jackee. How did this come about?

I think I can lay the blame at the feet of ant. Which is better than laying ants at the feet of, oh never mind. He recommended me and when they called they said we're hoping you can add some humor to the proceedings. Losing weight is such martyrdom that people give themselves over to their own drama. Maybe it's because they're deprived of the one thing that they could count on — food. It's a pity party three times a day. So I'm trying to do it and have a few chuckles along the way.

After the jump Bruce talks about Bette, Whoopi, and Miss. Ross.

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• Leave it to Michael Lucas to give us a reason to buy the video iPod. Madonna videos and porn in our pockets? Flawless.

• Someone please help Toby fix his website. We kinda miss him. Kinda.

• The B Squad sends you a Happy Halloween. It’s funny, but sadly features no anal sex like their last video.

• Bush nominates extremist Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court. We normally would be all bent out of shape, but we have a costume to hot-glue gun together. And that is so much more important.

• Gerard Depardieu is ending his acting career. Um, didn’t he ten years ago?

•So Miers isn't that bad. More than we can say for most Bush appointees.

•We knew they were gay. What we didn’t know was that the Teletubbies are cokeheads. Makes sense. Via Popbitch.

•“Playing dual piano?” Is that Condoleezza’s way of saying, “carpet munching?” We think so.

•Queen has a new lead singer. The thought of replacing our #1 gay in heaven Freddie Mercury did not initially sit well with us. But after listening to Paul Rodgers’ take on "Bohemian Rhapsody" we’re no longer skeptical. He manages to sound himself while honoring Mr. Mercury at the same time.

•Where does Sean Cody find them? Seriously. We need to know. Not safe for work.

•Hell. Where does Michael Lucas find them? Seriously. We need to know. Not safe for work.

• The White House's favorite manwhore, Jeff Gannon, thinks Bush's Supreme Court pick was stealthy. We wonder if that term was decided over pillow talk?

• It's been floating around for a little while now but we think this song is so cute. And so do all of our fag hags.

• When we get bored with the 20 million gay men in the U.S., we're packing our bags, crossing the Atlantic and heading over to India to try our luck on their 55 million. Oh, and note to CNN: next time try to find an even more sterotypical picture to go along with your story.

• Tonight's episode of Great Things About Being… on Bravo takes on queers. We're insulted that we weren't even consulted.

• Out lists the "Least Gay-Friendly States in America." Looking at the red states included we're left in the state of complete and utter un-surprise.

• Happy birthday to a man who makes his own kind of music; our boy Arjan! You must be so honored to share this special day with NRA love bug, Charlton Heston.

In this day and age, nothing brings about social change faster than the way you spend the almighty dollar. So if you’re in the market for some new wheels, why not buy a car from a company that treats the community with a little respect and not like George Bush on wheels.

Gaywheels.com helps you narrow down your options. The site compares the different automobile companies and points out which “offer domestic-partner benefits to their GLBT employees, no matter where they live or work in the US.”

Enemies include Hyundai, BMW and (gasp!) even the very car driven by our favorite very, very straight hobbit – the MINI!

So, you can’t get the beamer or the mini, so what? They’re both kinda’ over anyway.

Go for the Audi A4, Volkswagen Jetta, or if someone else is paying, the Porsche Carrera. You can’t find a closer friend to Dorothy than that.