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VIDEO: Obama heckled at college speech

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President Obama faced a heckler Thursday, while giving a speech on college affordability at Henninger High School in Syracuse, NY.

The woman who yelled out was met with a barrage of boos before the President was able to calm the crowd saying, "As hecklers go, that young lady was very polite," and that "she brought up an issue of importance and that's what America is all about."

Two women were then lead out of the event.

According to NBC's Shawna Thomas, one woman held a sign that read, "Free Bradley Manning," referring to the Army private who was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for leaking 700,000 documents to Wikileaks.

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