[WhiskeyPapa]

He says so himself - "I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause" etc.

It's that "etc" that is so damning of what DiLorenzo writes.

Walt

[GOPcapitalist]

It's that "etc" that is so damning of what DiLorenzo writes.

Not in the least. That "etc." is The Lincoln's rhetorical justification for doing whatever it takes to win - a fact that actually bolster's DiLorenzo's thesis of Abe Lincoln as a skilled political opportunist.