I like Subway but I can wait until this is over. I don't want to support them while this campaign is going on. The execs at Subway should know better than to put someone that polarizing in their stores.

Will not eat at Subway for as long as this goes on plus at least 6 months.

I shall toast Michelle's tiresome for an icon nanny state face with my next burger and fries.

Done shopping at Subway as soon as I see it.
Our Executive branch has lost all class and dignity.

Gee!! The face of Mickey's wife Minnie plastered all over Subway's Sandwich Shops could prove to be a greater diet incentive to lose weight than Weight
Watchers!!

"...encourage finicky eaters,,,to eat more of what comes out if the ground..." My dog already exhumes bones and other disgusting stuff. He is not an Obama fan, but I think my cat is.

Re: Eudaimonia,
Most franchise agreements allow franchisee's to opt out of some marketing programs under certain conditions. The specific caveats of aSubway agreement are unknown to me. Perhaps someone knows a franchisee well and could ask about this matter and post the information.

Fred Speckmann
commonsenseforamericans@yahoo.com

I'm not sure if she's polarizing calling for people to eat right and exercise. I know people who are fired up against anything related to President Obama obviously don't like her.

I agree completely about favoring one business over another. She should do promotions that don't mention any particular business. Subway sells pizza. McDonald's sells salads. Personal choice is more important.

My biggest worry is within two years we'll hear serious debate, "We're paying for your heart disease treatments. Should be allowed to be sedentary. If you expect us to pay for it, we expect to see a record of physical activity on your smartphone's or smartwatch's accelerometer. " That's very bad.

Robbie53024, thank you for that ethical and reasoned comment.
As a JFK Democrat, I shall do so and make clear why.
Our Federal government has escaped the fence of Constitutional limits.
Time to reign them in.

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Quiznos, baby. Quiznos.

Nice of them to provide targets to use at the range.

BO care will implement food choices and maximum allowances soon enough unless WE stop it first. They wouldn't dare upset SNAP users at this point by cutting off their cheetos and coke...they are a big part of their voter base... c'mon!

Really is a pity, I must say. Subway was one of the last forms of anything resembling fast-food that I can make myself eat. Anybody ever eat at a Blimpies? Waay better and everything is fresh sliced instead of pre-sliced.

Hear hear!

Extra mayo and spicy mustard, hold the politics, please!

A reasonable position. The first lady should, like others before here, be allowed to promote any good cause she wishes, so long as they don't favor any one business over another, there is no quid pro quo or government coercion of any kind... However, it is a bad business decision to introduce a polarizing figure... why alienate a portion of your clients? It is inevitable that politics will be injected into one's sandwich...

Her face better appear on something I can crumple up and throw in the trash where it belongs

I admire Michelle Obama. If we agree that the president's spouse should focus on some good cause, the cause of eating right seems like a great one for right our current time. I don't want this to become a slippery slope toward the gov't forcing you to eat right and exercise b/c after all, we're all responsible for the costs of treating the effects of your lifestyle choices. I'm not blaming PPACA, either, b/c many medical costs were socialized before it.

I see the danger of it appearing she's supporting one company that provides most its value in being a restaurant instead of promoting the healthful foods in general. If it doesn't slide down a slippery slope of the First Lady picking restaurants and stores to endorse, I'm okay with it.