Did these last 8 years plus this election just redefine democrats monetary & fiscally conservative party?

I'm serious, I mean, it seemed to me like Obama was more so conservative than McCain. I mean he's for the death penalty for child molesters, I think money wise, he'll spend wiser than McCain would have, or Bush did, he's completely against the idea of to much federal control, or at least he said he was, I don't know McCain seemed to be more so liberal to me than did Obama, what do you think? I mean, McCain and Bush were cool with the idea of sending public aide to Iraq. Seriously!