Obama killed Gaddafi with his OWN TWO HANDS!!!

The other day I was sitting having lunch with my friend Bartoma in my market town. She is Christian, her real name is Suzanne, but she changed it so that the people she works with would remember it better. She is a retired doctor and now is a village health worker for an NGO. Her family lives in Bamako where her husband is a professor but she is currently on contract out here, so she visits her family on some weekends and holidays. She has an intern of sorts, a Malian guy currently at university studying anthropology. But since the university is on strike, he works with her mostly. The other day they asked me if I like Obama. This question is normal in Mali; I probably get asked it at least once every time I meet someone new because everyone loves him so much here. I said well sure, I like him. And then I changed the subject to our upcoming elections. He interrupted and said “no, Obama is a bad guy. No one likes him anymore because he killed Gaddafi.” I thought he was joking, or at least still just making casual conversation; I know him pretty well. But he kept going, asking why Obama would do such a thing; kill Gaddafi with his own hands after all Gaddafi has done for his people. I was stunned, this can’t be real; I stated some general facts and figures that I thought were common knowledge about the corruption and murderous ways of Gaddafi and his family. The conversation became awkward though, and I could tell that this was no light matter to my friends- so I had to drop it and quickly change the subject. But it just goes to show how well propaganda works against even the most educated people in a terribly poor country that depended upon Gaddafi for so long.