Y'know, for as much as we thump our chests at each other over the rightness of our beliefs/claims, I have to say that this is a good point. I was one of the ones, during the third debate thinking, "Mali? WTF is he going on about Mali for?"
On the other hand, were we ever going to believe that President Romney was going to actively engage in anything to do with Africa? Obviously we'll never know, but Romney's problem across the board was that just because he talks about it, he couldn't convince people he was going to do anything about it.