This morning the Colorado Independent posted a story about their interview of Richard Cizik, "one of the country’s most powerful and outspoken Christian evangelical leaders". Czik was quoted as saying
"I thought John McCain was a principled person, But John McCain has backed off, not just on climate change but on torture and a sensible tax policy — in other words, he’s not the John McCain of 2000. ... He seems to be waffling on issue after issue.
The article was picked up on Huffington Post and quickly got more than 90 diggs. Then it mysteriously disappeared from the Colorado Independent’s site and was not found in Google’s web cache
The article is entitled Evangelical leader smacks McCain for lack of ‘principle’. It was originally at
http://www.coloradoindependent.com/.... It's gone from that site. But I found it in its entirety at sodahead
The article was picked up for comment by Huffington Post
The article makes Cizik sound like a Christian progressive, at least on global warming
Over the past several years, Cizik, whose organization represents 45,000 churches from 59 denominations, has emerged as a passionate leader in the Creation Care movement — efforts by Christian evangelicals to respond to the perils of global change.
snip...
a phalanx of evangelicals ... tried last year, unsuccessfully, to get Cizik fired from his job of 26 years for sounding the global warming alarm.
The article goes on to report Cizik's narrative of the Palin selection
First...
Dobson let it be known in no uncertain terms: "I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances ... he’s not in favor of traditional marriage and I pray that we don’t get stuck with him."
Second...
lo and behold, since Palin was picked, Dobson has been gushing over the ticket
Finally...
Palin’s record as a drill-baby-drill-for-oil advocate, including in Alaska’s National Wildlife Reserve; supporting shooting wolves from low-flying airplanes; and de-listing bears as an endangered species doesn’t exactly resonate among evangelical Christians who have embraced a commitment to caring for God’s creation. .... "Not everyone in the evangelical movement is fawning over Sarah Palin," Cizik says.
The article closes with a noteworthy quote. I'm tempted to truncate it to show only his thoughts on McCain, but in fairness I also include his comments on Obama.
"I am a Republican, but I’m not comfortable with giving the Republicans four more years. I don’t see John McCain differing enough from the incumbent, and yet Obama is a work in progress, pretty much, so we’d be taking some risk with him. It’s a conundrum."
So what happened between this morning and this evening for the Colorado Independent to scrub it from their web site?