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Let’s be honest, last night while President Obama was giving his State Of The Union address there was a point where you and Joe Biden began to zone out a little and travel in your minds to a much happier, sassier, flashier place…a place where success is measured not in financial stability or a sound health care policy, but in fierceness. That’s right you and Joe love drag and were probably thinking about RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 2, premiering Feb. 1 at 9PM on LOGO. Then your thoughts most likely led you to wonder what Obama might look like glammed up for the runway, and for that matter what McCain might have looked like as a bedazzled drag queen and furthermore if the presidential election had been a drag-off would Obama still have won? (Probably! He’s fierce no matter what.)

Continue down this rabbit hole and check out five very famous Presidents (plus two bonus politicians) at their dragified! When you’re done head over to Best Week Ever and check out 20 Celebrities Who Make Convincing Drag Queens. And don’t forget to use the dragulator over at Logo and dragulate yourself!

Khloe Kardashian’s whirlwind marriage to Lamar Odom is already starting to pay off: the reality star got to meet President Barack Obama yesterday, without crashing a party or anything! Odom and his fellow LA Lakers were at the White House to present a jersey reading “Obama #1″ to the leader of the free world, and Khloe was among the lucky wives at the meet and greet (”It was all so surreal LOL,” she tweeted—you’re telling us, Khloe). Judging from the photos, you’d almost think Obama recognized her! We’re just going to assume he felt a vague familiarity from countless magazine covers, though. Imaginging our President spending more than two minutes watching Keeping Up With The Kardashians is just too much to bear.

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The president is disappointed in you, Kanye. At least, off the record he is. President Obama had an informal chat with a CNBC reporter yesterday and when he was asked about the VMA controversy he explained that he thought Kanye West was a “jackass”. Of course no one in their right mind would report that the president said something like that especially when it’s off the record, but ABC reporter Terry Moran heard the news feed and Twittered about it. The Tweet read “Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.” Whither thy journalistic integrity, Terry - using Twitter and sarcasm in one swoop?

The post was quickly taken down and ABC issued an apology for prematurely reporting the quote. We actually think the president’s views on pop culture should be more transparent, it makes him more human. Forget healthcare, what does he think of Lady Gaga? [Photo: Getty Images]

If you were craving a bad-ass moment from President Obama, this is it. The Commander in Chief paused an interview to annihilate a fly buzzing around his head with one loud slap, declaring “that was pretty impressive, wasn’t it?” as the insect lay dead on the ground.

The attention-hungry animal rights group PETA is - of course - less impressed with the President’s handiwork. The animal lovers will be delivering a batch of humane fly catchers to the White House in protest, and also released a statement about the swat. “We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals,” said the group’s spokesperson.  “We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals.”

Uh,we hate to break it to you PETA, but he’s the mother-effing President. And if he wants to, he can - and will - hurt a fly.  [HuffingtonPost]

The cream of the entertainment world were whooping it up at the Correspondent’s Dinner in Washington over the weekend, but amazingly, the world’s current biggest star (ahem) wasn’t there. No, Susan Boyle, the Britain’s Got Talent/YouTube superstar, turned down an invite from President Barack Obama to attend the bash, because she was too nervous.

“She was shocked and thrilled by the invite — but it was all too much too soon for her so she said no,” says a source.  What, a thrust-into-the-limelight normal person who actually decides to take this fame thing as slowly and carefully as possible? Surely not. [Photos: WENN]

A few months ago, Russell Brand’s career was in trouble after he left a crude message about conquest Georgina Bailie on her granddad Andrew Sach’s — a famous British actor’s — phone, live on the radio. Although some UK newspapers are still having a go at him about it, Russell has clearly worked out that six months is a long time in showbiz and moved on to another phone victim on another radio show — Barack Obama. Thank God, he’s not claiming any sexual shenanigans, but rather talking about sport.

“At one stage Russell put in a call to the Presidential demanding to know if President Obama really is a West Ham [soccer club] fan..He also asked why he hadn’t been thanked for urging voters to back Obama at last year’s MTV Video Music Awards,” reports the Sun.

Naturally, it was an eccentrically-dressed British comic who helped sweep Obama to victory, wasn’t it? Hm. But Russell had better not get too overconfident now that he’s back in favor — his Forgetting Sarah Marshall co-star Kristen Bell threatened to “beat him up” if he ever left a similar message on her grandpa’s phone. [Photos: WENN]

President Barack Obama has fulfilled the promise made during his acceptance speech to daughters Malia and Sasha. The family has made their much-anticipated decision for First Dog, landing on a Portuguese Water Dog, of the same lineage as the “Porties” of Senator Ted Kennedy. The initial hoopla that Obama cannot accept gifts has since dissolved as it’s been revealed that the pup was previously sold to a private owner and had been returned to a Texas kennel, so it is technically being “re-homed” to the Obama residence. The newly named “Bo” (rumored to be after Michelle’s late father) will have a Presidential homecoming ceremony tomorrow, when he is presented to the Obamas by Senator Kennedy. [Source: TMZ]

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House fans were shocked last night by the sudden suicide of Dr. Lawrence Kutner, played by Kal Penn. The Harold & Kumar actor has a new gig working for the White House, and Penn—who volunteered for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign—asked the producers if they could take care of Kutner’s storyline…permanently.

I was incredibly honored a couple of months ago to get the opportunity to go work in the White House. I got to know the President and some of the staff during the campaign and had expressed interest in working there, so I’m going to be the associate director in the White House office of public liaison. They do outreach with the American public and with different organizations. They’re basically the front door of the White House. They take out all of the red tape that falls between the general public and the White House. It’s similar to what I was doing on the campaign.

The producers are warning Entertainment Weekly that fans shouldn’t expect much explanation for Kutner’s sudden death (”Obviously, there are reasons, but the notion that the reasons are too complicated for even House to figure out is what was drawing us to it”). Confused fans looking for a place to grieve can go to Fox’s memorial page for the character, which leads to a Facebook group so earnest you might feel like something bad has happened to Penn. Maybe he should hold a press conference just so everyone knows he’s OK.

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Americans give the English Barack Obama (for a couple days, at least), and the English are giving us another TV presenter to take over the schedules just like Cat Deeley. Currently the darling of the stylish London party scene (she’s mates with Kelly Osbourne, the Geldof girls and Lily Allen amongst others), Alexa Chung has presented countless music and fashion-based TV shows and has been heralded by the style press in London as the coolest girl going. Which she kind of is. And she’s headed to Brooklyn (of course).

“Alexa has been offered a big show over there so she’s heading off this summer. She’s picked out an apartment really near to Daisy Lowe’s in trendy Williamsburg in Brooklyn, close to where Peaches Geldof moved last year,” says a source.  Agyness watch out - let the hipster-off begin! [Photo: WENN]

Barack Obama is the first sitting President to be on the Tonight Show, the first to bravely show off his abs, and the first to hold a live Internet video chat. For the chat, held yesterday, The White House opened itself to questions from the general public and more than 100,000 were received. People then voted on which questions they wanted to hear Obama answer, and wouldn’t you know, one of the top inquiries they got was about legalizing pot.

The question posed asked whether legalizing marijuana might stimulate the economy by allowing the government to regulate and tax it. After realizing that that was one of the top questions on people’s minds, Obama joked, “I don’t know what this says about the online audience.” It says they cared enough to pause Pineapple Express for a half a second to send you a message, Barry! Take it as a compliment.

But Obama got stern when he firmly responded: “No, I don’t think that is a good strategy to grow the economy.” Later, the White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he thought maybe marijuana advocates had stuffed the online voting boxes to get their question heard, and Norml, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (we love a good acronym), admits that they did tell their supporters to “let the president know that millions of American voters believe that the time has come to tax and regulate marijuana.” Hey, maybe they just want to be taxed in advance because they know they won’t pay them in the future, like Method Man. [Source: NYTimes; Photo: AFP]