That's classic Clinton-bonics. Simple, leading and/or declarative pablem like "the American people want....", "the American people demand.....", "you know that....", "everyone knows.....", "it's obvious to everyone...." etc,etc,etc.
These people speak in lawyerese with a bit of NLP (the Dems. are BIG on NLP) mixed in. And about 1/2 of Americans are just too dumb to figure out that someone is calling them stupid to their faces.
"It's obvious that all thinking Americans know and understand that John Edwards sucks!"