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Pelosi: Obama Has More Patience Than Biblical Job Pelosi
also said she is “almost too busy” to continue listening to what’s going on in the debt limit negotiations.
Thursday, July 14, 2011 By Nicholas Ballasy (CNSNews.com) –
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that President Barack Obama has shown a “level of patience” in debt limit negotiations with congressional leaders that does not compare to the biblical figure Job, known as the “Man of Patience.”
“I want to commend the president – I have never seen – Job is no place compared to this president in terms of patience,” said Pelosi at a press briefing on Thursday. “He [Job] doesn’t even begin because this president has demonstrated a level of patience, not only during the meetings but as respect, respectful of the suggestions that are made by all parties at the meeting, in his preparation for the meeting, and his coming back to address concerns that are expressed by others.” Nancy Pelosi Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Pelosi also said she is “almost too busy” to continue listening to what is going on in the debt limit meetings.
Refresher on Job in case anyone needs it:
Q. Where did the term “patience of Job” come from?
A. It refers to Job’s refusal to condemn God when Satan was allowed to destroy his family and his livestock, essentially turning him from a rich man into a childless pauper overnight. Instead he entered into a series of dialogs that culminated in a fascinating conversation with God Himself. In the end Job saw the error in his ways, sought forgiveness, and everything was restored.