Reply #32: "Gravitas"

[Palladin]

- despite his carefully crafted persona, Chickenhawk ain't got it. There are folks
back in Casper right now, fellow Mustang football buddies, academics from the high
school and junior college, people from the telephone company, oilmen - people who have known
Cheney from kneehigh - who will tell you he's a phoney. Always has been.
What he's had all his life is a lust for power and money. He happened to marry Lynn, who's
much more intelligent than he is - she was the HS valedictorian after all, while he was the football
captain - who has directed him to seize opportunities and cut down his enemies.

Somebody ought to ask him about liquor in this incident. He won't want to answer, the swine.