Politico: So if you’re the Democratic Party and you’re looking for an infusion of new leadership, would you be calling Epstein to recruit him?

Dan Bernstein: He’s an attractive guy, he’s got a lot of great qualities ... He does well when he’s in public, he’s incredibly articulate. Take a look at his speech at the White House. It’s Obama’s last event—Obama being a very, very prominent White Sox fan—and Theo couldn’t have handled it better. His remarks were graceful, funny, disarming and yet inspiring. So he has those abilities and he is by the way, like Obama, a very fine writer ... but he genuinely is an introvert ... He doesn’t like the spotlight, he doesn’t thrive on the attention. And I’m not sure he would like the constant personal exposure that one has in that job. My doubts, again, are not about him as a candidate, but his desire to do such a thing. I’m sure there are people who will talk to him about [running]. I don’t think there’s any doubt about it. It’s not like there’s a long line of superstars out there.

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