Let's consider the whole quote: "I have never knowingly done anything wrong in my entire life."
Take a moment.
You back? So, what does that say of the man? What person actually says that or even thinks such a thing of themselves? Now, make that person a successful politician or even, say, a former Prime Minister. Is it that you have to have that thought in your head, that grey empty space of a thought, to get ahead in the chosen part of life's rich pageant or is it that you get that way having pushed your way through. Say what you like about Mr. Harper - but do you really think he would say such a thing let alone take a package of cash in an airport hotel room? You might actually accept that he never knowingly did anything wrong in his entire life... or at least that he could plausibly think that. But I don't think the inner voice of Stephen - let alone the public one - would utter such words.
Comments
Ben (The Tiger) - May 21, 2009 11:35 AM
Honestly, who has "never knowingly done anything wrong"?
brodie - May 21, 2009 12:50 PM
CBC reported yesterday that depending on which study you believe, we tell between 2 and 60 lies per day. and we start very young. surely at least one of those lies involved covering up something we've knowingly done wrong (if the lying itself isn't considered a wrong act). If taking the bag of money wasn't wrong, it sure was stupid but I beleive he's admitted that.
David Janes - May 21, 2009 10:20 PM
I haven't told a single lie today. No wait, ummm.... I'll get back to you.
Cool Girl - May 23, 2009 10:45 AM
Isn't he Roman Catholic?
How on earth did he make it through confession from the age of 6 to 18?
That is when you had to "confess your sins" to the big, bad, dark priest on the other side of the door. Your parents forced you to do this at least once a year. In my case, it was once a week.
I remember being a little girl and terrified and struggling to come up with sins to tell the priest to get through my weekly confession.
Because it just wasn't done, to tell your parents: "um, mom, dad, I haven't done anything bad this week".
So I would kneel there and whisper fearfully things like "I lied to my mother. I took a dime out of the change can. I pretended I had a belly ache to stay home from school (when I was really getting bullied).
So did he lie to the priest for all those years, making up sins to whispher to the priest when he was, all this time, sinless?
That would be wrong. In my opinion.
Renee - May 25, 2009 4:05 PM
Oh behalf of all of the proud citizens who knowingly do wrong things all the time, I resent that.
Renee - May 25, 2009 4:06 PM
Oh, and: "I did not have financial intercourse with that man."