Failure of Imagination

Sarah Vowell on The Daily Show:

The thing about the current president is — I wrote about this a little bit — how he keeps opening up new possibilities for us. You know, like I talk about going to his inauguration and standing there and crying when he took the oath, ’cause I was so afraid that he would wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water. The failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.