NOW IT’S TIME FOR MY HUMBLE RE-CREATION OF YOUR ERIC SEVEREID MOMENT.

ELECTIONS ARE COMING UP TUESDAY.  NEVER HAS AN ELECTION MATTERED SO MUCH SINCE 1860 WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ELECTED. THE NEXT BIG ELECTION 1898 WHEN THE MCKINLEY- TEDDY ROOSEVELT TICKET WAS ELECTED IT MEANT EVENTUALLY THE BREAKUP OF MONOPOLIES OF STANDARD OIL AND THE RAIL ROADS BY TEDDY ROOSEVELT “THE TRUST BUSTER.”

THE NEXT WAS THE ELECTION OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT FOR A THIRD TERM IN 1940 WHO BROKE AMERICA’S ISOLATIONIST STANCE BY THE MAJORITY OF THE PRESS PUNDITS OF THE TIME EXCEPT FOR THE GREAT WALTER WINCHELL.

FDR SUPPORTED ENGLAND AND FRANCE AGAINST NAZI GERMANY AND JAPAN.

THIS ELECTION IS NOT AN ELECTION SO MUCH AS CANDIDATES BUT AN ELECTION THAT WILL REFLECT ALL AMERICANS’ CHARACTERS THEIR DECENCY, COMPASSION, BELIEFS IN TRUTH JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY BY THEIR SACRED VOTES.

AMERICANS HEARD THAT MESSAGE: YOUNG AND OLD , MEN AND WOMEN ENLISTED IN THE ARMED FORCES TO STOP THE NAZIS BY CONSECRATING THEIR LIVES.

THE TESTIMONIES TO THE VALUE OF WHAT THOSE MEN AND WOMEN GAVE—THEIR LIVES–ARE ON THE POSTERS OF THOSE WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II, THE KOREAN WAR, VIETNAMWAR, IRAQ AND AFGANISTAN WARS ON TELEPHONE POLLS THROUGHOUT WESTCHESTER.

THOSE POSTERS OF THE SMILING, DETERMINED AMERICN WAR DEAD REMIND WESTCHESTER COUNTY  AS WE DRIVE BY OF THEIR VIBRANCE AND LOST LEGACIES THEY NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO REALIZE AND CONTRIBUTE.

LOOKING AT THEIR DETERMINED SMILING FACES TEARS YOU UP.

SO YOUR VOTES MR. MS. AND MRS. AMERICANS IS MORE SACRED THIS YEAR.

YOU WILL BE DECIDING WHAT KIND OF AMERICANS ARE WE.

ARE WE INDIVIDUALS WHO WANT JUST WHAT WE INDIVIDUALLY BELIEVE  AND DO AND THINK?

OR ARE WE STILL THE YOUNG THE COMMITTED THE BELIEVERS IN AMERICA OF THE FOUNDERS ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE :

OVER THE TOP FOLLOWING THOSE WHO GONE BEFORE US INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH TO DEFEND WHAT IS RIGHT WHAT AMERICANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TO THE WORLD AND ITS PEOPLE IN TROUBLE?

 WILL YOU CAST YOUR VOTE TO HELP PROVIDE AND SUPPORT OTHERS AS AMERICA HAS ALWAYS DONE OR VOTE TO TAKE AWAY?

YOUR VOTE COUNTS.

CAST IT

WITH CONSCIENCE, CONVICTION AND YOUR SACRED HONOR.

THIS IS JOHN BAILEY REPORTING FOR WHITE PLAINS WEEK. GOOD NIGHT AND THANK YOU AMERICANS

(THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE WEEKLY COMMENTARY “PERSPECTIVES ’26” ON WHITE PLAINS WEEK OF FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30 ON TONIGHT AT 7)