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For the purposes of the "national campaign," what the bloviators bloviate about, what the commentators comment about, what most Americans manage to glimpse of the campaign, this is what "really" happened that day: the campaigns continued to "dial back the rhetoric," which in previous days "had grown increasingly poisonous."

—Obama & Sweet Potato Pie

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intransitive verb Slang To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner: "the rural Babbitt who bloviates about 'progress' and 'growth'” (George Rebeck).

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For the purposes of the "national campaign," what the bloviators bloviate about, what the commentators comment about, what most Americans manage to glimpse of the campaign, this is what "really" happened that day: the campaigns continued to "dial back the rhetoric," which in previous days "had grown increasingly poisonous." — Obama & Sweet Potato Pie
I actually went to bed the other night thinking about the word "bloviate." — Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics
The request for feedback sometimes includes: "Please do not bloviate, [that's] my job." — Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics
You are quick to deny freedom to others, bloviate, and are small minded. — AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Just loop "blah, blah cyber-terror yada blorg emerging network-centric threatspace blah, yadda, rogue state espionage etc. soforth pedophile super hackers drone bloviate organized crime identity theft" until everybody's eyes glaze over. — Slashdot: IT