Bombastic

"Sen. Barack Obama linked Sen. John McCain Friday with what he called "the failed policies" of the Bush administration, accusing the presumed Republican presidential nominee and the White House of "bombastic exaggerations and fear-mongering" in place of "strategy and analysis and smart policy."

This has nothing to do with politics, but with the derivation of the word "bombastic". Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus was noted for his drinking and belligerent behavior. He was also brilliant. The Shrub is not brilliant, but has been known to down a few. His real name was Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim born in Einsiedeln in Switzerland in 1493.

"Man is not body. The heart, the spirit, is man. And this spirit is an entire star, out of which he is built. If therefore a man is perfect in his heart, nothing in the whole light of Nature is hidden from him...The first step in the operation of these sciences is this: to beget the spirit from the inner firmament by means of the imagination."