From the Department of Implausible Claims:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton pushed back against criticism from fellow Democrats that she is too polarizing to unite the country as president, arguing that the political battles she has been through make her uniquely equipped to bring the nation together and build a centrist governing coalition.

By this logic, couldn’t Newt Gingrich make the same claim? He’s polarizing too!

The larger problem here is that the Democrats’ eagerness to distance themselves from the Bush years is causing them to fetishize bipartisanship at home and diplomacy abroad. While the current administration has given short shrift to both, Hillary, Obama, and the other Democrats are building expectations way too high that they will be able to create a bipartisan governing coalition in Congress and negotiate a series of agreements with rogue regimes like Iran. The reality is that there are structural reasons why both are hard to do. And if a Democrat fails to meet those expectations, the press will jump all over them.