even Reagan pulled off an econ major

Many presidential candidates in recent memory have pretended to be uncultured. In fact, all of them have been lounging in books etc (if not reading them) at least since age 18.

Now there is Huckabee. From wikipedia:

He graduated magna cum laude from Ouachita Baptist University, completing his bachelor's degree in Religion in 2½ years before attending Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas where he dropped out after one year.

Huckabee has 3.5 years of higher education, all of them about the Baptist version of Jesus, one of them a failure. Since then he has been a motivational speaker (under the aeges of various churches and Arkansas) and written a weight loss book.

With any luck we're about to see the first authentically retarded presidential candidate since whatever republican thought he had a shot in 1944. This is going to change everything, I think for the better. Candidates are required to act the way which comes most awkwardly to them. Kerry hunted; Bush was sober; Obama claps his hands at gospel concerts. So Huckabee will have to act smart!

Remember how Bush said his favorite philosopher was Jesus? That's because a reporter asked him who his favorite philosopher was. And Bush wasn't half as nonphilosophical as Huckabee, what with Yale etc. Huckabee will get it bad. "Governor, in ten minutes or more, do you categorize Michel Foucault as a philosopher or an historian? Please reply in a Boston accent."

P.S. Obviously my rant is inspired by Huckabee's anti-gay sex (NOT ANTI GAY!) comments on Tim Russert. "The perfection of God is seen in a marriage in which one man, one woman live together as a couple committed to each other as life partners," Huckabee explained. Where did that come from, a censored copy of Hedwig and the Angry Inch? "And the children of the moon/were like a fork shoved on a spoon..."