I think "proven" would have sounded better than "proved" in the first line of the article.

Seriously, thanks for the link LC. In the realm of verbal gaffes I doubt anyone alive could make it through a campaign without compiling a long list of such gaffes. The media will show no restraint in pointing them out to us for the coming 15 months. It would be nice if Mr. Perry, Mr. Obama and all the rest would get a chance to give us their spiel, or shpeel as the case may be, without having to be so cautious of every word. Aside from the campaign trail and some days on these forums we all seem to get a little benefit of the doubt if our words aren't perfect. I can't see how the extreme fault-finding (or faultfinding if you prefer) is going to help us get a better person in office.