In the opening lines of his "A More Perfect Union" speech, Obama explicitly said that the Constitution "launched America's improbable experiment in democracy" (2). Even in 1787, the idea of a democracy was something akin to maple bacon donuts: unnatural and just plain wrong.

And, while some would argue that maple bacon donuts have no chance of ever being anything more than an experiment, democracy seemed to rise to the occasion—especially once our forefathers actually had a strong document in support of it.

Throughout his speech, Obama constantly referenced the Constitution, and everything it stands for. Our values, our rights, and our freedoms—the very ones that allowed a strange person to combine bacon with donuts—come back to that document. It is a kind of guarantee that we the people are protected, but we the people also have the power to change things if we don't like something.

In other words, he was challenging us to conduct our own experiment, to take the Constitution, a successful trial in itself, and use it to imagine a world without racism, without hate, without discrimination.

Because, in a world with maple bacon goodies and blueberry-flavored potato chips, anything is possible.