Not a very wise thing for him to say, and I'm not talking in the political sense. He shouldn't trivialize Job's woes that way. He's tempting God to teach him a painfully clarifying lesson IMHO. I don't agree with the man's politics and find his use of Christianity for votes disgusting, but I hope he never truly experiences even a fraction of Job's suffering. He could not bear it. Not without a real conversion to Christianity, anyway.
"Asked his favorite New Testament book, Dr. Dean named Job, adding: "But I don't like the way it ends." "Some would argue, you know, in some of the books of the New Testament, the ending of the Book of Job is different," he said. "I think, if I'm not mistaken, there's one book where there's a more optimistic ending, which we believe was tacked on later." Job, the Old Testament story of a righteous man who suffers hardships as a test of his faith, ends with the Lord restoring his fortunes and the protagonist living to be "an old man, and full of days." Some scholars have posited that the original ending may have been more dour. An hour after his comments, Dr. Dean returned to the clutch of reporters, saying he realized he had misspoken because Job is not in the New Testament."
Then later
"Asked again about his favorite part of the New Testament, Dr. Dean said, 'Anything in the Gospels.'"
Nice, nonspecific response there.
(Any of the 5 Gospels? *wink*)