Can you have your cake and eat it too?

The recent debate was not much more than John McCain proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the recent Rolling Stone profile of McCain's absurdly spoiled life and pathetic attempted to be as great a man as his father and grandfather was absolutely true. He was rude, arrogant, angry and downright stupid.
McCain looked like a man struggling for life in the face of the gallows - spuing idiotic lies and being so ambiguish it was enough to make an iron stomach churn in nausea.
Barack Obama, although intelligent, on the ball and well spoken as usual, came off as a man who knew he had won. His shit eating grin suggested to the viewer, "Hey, it's in the bag, let's have some fun!" Well Obama, Americans do love an underdog so let's not celebrate prematurely.
This would be a concern if the republican candidate was at least somewhat better at playing the game of politics than McCain who has ridden his familial military history to where he is today.
Despite polls that show citizens believe McCain has been airing more negative ads, he tried to claim that Obama has spent more moeny than anytime in history on negative campaigns (two minutes later he claimed since Nixon, but that's neither here nor there).
McCain is the man guilty of spewing slander. His supporters are actually afraid of an Obama presidency because he is an "A-rab." Even when one thinks McCain has thrown enough mud, he digs a little deeper to make an indirect accusation that Obama is a socialist, saying Obama wants to "spread the wealth around" by taxing the rich and giving to the poor.
Good for Barack Robinhood Obama!
We shan't place the entirety of blame of the weathered shoulders of McCain however. He is jsut an effect of the societal problem at hand, which is that of a deep rooted fear of socialism dating back to the days of McCarthy.
I say to this, America, can we have it both ways?
As the ambassador pointed out recently, the $700 billion bailout is precisely socialism for the rich. By the way, both candidates supported the bailout. Therefore is McCain...oh no, can I say it? a socialist?
The bailout plan is clearly a move to allow the government to step in and control the "free market." Can we have it both ways? To one minute practice socialism and another denounce the idea based on a 1950's mentality of fear of the Soviets? For McCain to one minute throw a lifeline to to the rish who fucked up in the first place, and then try to smear Obama's reputation by suggesting he is a socialist?
At least Obama is consistent, socialist or not.
Perhaps that is the only way for us to be truly free however. Maybe that is the one hint of hope in our system, that ability to fuse many political ideologies in order to make our own twisted logic work.