A few years ago the plight of Gorazde in Bosnia became the center of brief media attention and Clinton mentioned it often during his addresses. He always mispronounced it "Goradze" and embarrassed me to be an American. That a world leader couldn't pronounce correctly the name of a city under siege seemed to belittle the suffering of its citizens.

In the same vein, Jimmy Carter often talked about the "commonists." Maybe he was trying to coin a new word.