US president Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney met in Denver for a contentious but largely unmemorable debate in which each man accused the other of lying about his plans for taxes, health care and other key domestic issues.<br /><br />Romney went on the offensive early, hammering Obama on his economic record: “Look at the evidence of the last four years, it’s absolutely extraordinary,” he said.<br /><br />“We’ve got 23 million people out of work, stopped looking for work in this country.”<br /><br />Alan Fisher reports.
