So here we are: It's the morning after the Super Tuesday primaries.

We know so much about some aspects of the candidates' lives.

And so little about others.

Remember when President George W. Bush read Albert Camus' classic "The Stranger" last summer?

Lot of good it did, I'd say, judging by his support of the death penalty, his three trillion-dollar budget and his policy statements regarding social good.

The man just has no sense of the absurd, although in a certain way he embodies it and exports it even if he can't see that. But then what can you expect from someone who considers Jesus a "philosopher"?

Maybe he should have read "Macbeth" instead. (And Mike Huckabee should read Darwin's "Origin of Species.")

But Bush is on the way out.

And now chances are either Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John McCain is on the way in. And all seem like more intellectual heavyweights than W.

Could they get some of that depth into the presidential race?

So, putting aside questions of entertainment and pop culture - like what is your favorite action movie or TV sitcom or favorite beer or favorite rock or country song or favorite football team - here what I would like to ask each of them:

Who is your favorite composer and your favorite piece of classical music?

Who is your favorite artist and piece of visual art?

Who is your favorite writer and what is your favorite work of literature, as opposed to a bestselling book?

Who is your favorite poet and what is your favorite poem?

What questions like those would you like to ask the candidates?

It shouldn't really be considered elitist or too much to ask that a well educated president (the candidates I've cited have attended and taught at Yale, Harvard and the University of Chicago among other high-power institutions of higher learning) should embody serious culture and learning as well as more lightweight fare, should it?

What questions about art and culture would you like to ask each candidate?

And what answers do you expect you would get?

Finally, what recommendations in those categories would you make to each candidate?

If enough of you let Art Talk readers know, maybe someone from the campaigns, or even the candidates themselves, might reply. I wonder what the odds are of that.