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NRO’s\u00a0The Corner<\/em><\/p>\n Barack Obama in his weekly radio address accused opponents of comprehensive immigration reform of rank partisan politics: \u201cThey\u2019ll try to stoke fear and create division. They\u2019ll try to play politics with an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n He should know: Here is what he advised Latino groups before the 2010 election \u2014 in fears that they might not play enough politics with immigration. Obama urged them to adopt the following strategies: \u201cWe\u2019re gonna punish our enemies and we\u2019re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.\u201d<\/p>\n Whether on the issues surrounding the War on Terror, spending, the debt ceiling, the filibuster \u2014 in fact almost any issue \u2014 the indicators of Obama\u2019s partisan demagoguing are his constant accusations that others are thinking, and must be doing, precisely what he has. 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