sabotaged by the spell-checker

Howard Fineman has a thoughtful piece (via VodkaPundit) up over on MSNBC.com on why the Democrats aren't doing as well as they theoretically could be. He makes a lot of good points, but I am so juvenile I was distracted by a typo. Here's Fineman discussing LBJ's trip to New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane there during his administration:

I thought it was an instructive contrast to Bush’s too-little, too-late personal response to Katrina. But the anecdote contains a lesson for Democrats, too: LBJ stood for a big idea—the healing power of government. He was in the mist of his Great Society presidency.

I'm pretty sure that's not what Fineman meant to say, but I love it. The Great Society was responsible for a lot of murky public policy goals, and most people who continue to advocate the Great Society are walking around in a fog.