Morning Examiner: Does Obama have a Fast and Furious problem?

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President Obama currently holds a sizable, 2-to-1 according to Fox News, lead over Mitt Romney among Latino voters. With a lead that big, you’d think Obama would be comfortable enough to be honest with Latinos about his failures on issues that matter to them. But he hasn’t been.

For example, two weeks ago at the Univision forum, Jorge Ramos asked Obama to defend his administration’s Fast and Furious gun walking program, which allowed 1,961 guns to flow to Mexican drug cartels. Obama replied, “I think it’s important for us to understand that the Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration.”

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