Time to eat

I don't get it. Obama looks more slender than Dubya, but for some reason Obama seems to make Inland Empire people all hungry - or at least more hungry than they've been in the past:

"I have not seen any improvement in our company as far as gaining sales," said Chuck Keagle, owner of Inland-based restaurants Cask 'n Cleaver, Sycamore Inn and Blackwood American Grill.

"What's happened this year is sales are no longer dropping -- they'd been sliding for the past year and a half, and this year they've stayed at a relatively stable level," Keagle said Wednesday.

Hey, when sales aren't dropping, that's success in my book.

Be sure to read the rest of the Press-Enterprise article, which includes a mention of Junior Seau's restaurant efforts in Temecula.