Was Cheney's Wheelchair Viet Nam Revisited?

I'm sorry Mr. President, I know we're suppose to be looking forward here, and I promise not to violate that covenant from this day forward.  But I just can't help but wonder whether Dick Cheney's heart wrenching wheelchair performance just another scam to deprive the American people of the opportunity to boo his butt right him right out of Washington.  That "back injury" of his seemed to be mighty convenient.  I mean, somehow he just doesn't strike me as the kind of man that's predisposed to lifting anything heavier than a tax write-off. 

Think about it. He was probably certain that he was going to be booed when he was introduced at the inaugrual, but not showing up at all would have been much too obviously evasive. So he might come up with the bright idea that if he showed up in a wheelchair, it would not only allow him to avoid a lot of situations that a fully functional Dick Cheney couldn't, and he'd also have the sympathy thing working for him. He probably figured, who could boo a person in a wheelchair?

It was the closest to sneaking out the backdoor that his cowardly mind could come up with. After all, that's how neo-cons deal personal threats. Let's not forget, the heroic Rush Limbaugh got out of Viet Nam by something as simple as declaring a boil on his ass.