Or however you wish to spell it.

An example:
http://www.huyghe.fr/dyndoc_actu/44b4a838af4d3.pdf

For me it's not spin, which is "positive", which actually means something, however unrealistic or unattainable, but rather, as has been suggested, "pompous waffle" which is meaningless and offered - in response to a question one does not wish to answer or is incapable of answering - to put up a pretence of addressing/understanding the issue.

Political gobbledegook.

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As the Wikipedia article referred to below, gobbledegook (or what I would call "orginary gobbledegook") is a form of language using incomprehensible jargon and convoluted phraseology that soon loses the listener along the way. Political gobblegook does not set out to lose the listener but rather to give him the impression that something meaningful has been said without actually giving the words any meaning.

In that respect it's like machine translation, which I frequently compare to that little ditty
"One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight.
Back to back they face each other
Drew their swords and shot one another".

Until you start thinking about it, it sounds just fine ...

BBC News - Mandelson wins award for POLITICAL 'GOBBLEDEGOOK'
8 Dec 2009 ... Lord Mandelson wins a Plain English Campaign award for his use of political jargon and gobbledegook.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/.../8400350.stm


Management jargon and POLITICAL GOBBLEDEGOOK exert a perverse pull on my attention, despite their often deadening inanity. ...
stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/gobbledegook/

It sounds like the kind of POLITICAL GOBBLEDEGOOK that gets spit out when the answer is right there in front of everyone like a pink ...
crooksandliars.com/.../corporate-ceos-teach-economic-catch-22-boog

It wasn't one of the more heavyweight reports: more an opportunity to mock official and POLITICAL GOBBLEDEGOOK (and why not). ...
www.simplificationcentre.org.uk

Gobbledygook or gobbledegook (sometimes gobbledegoo) is any text containing JARGON or especially CONVOLUTED English that results in it being excessively hard to understand or even INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
[ ... ] The term gobbledygook was coined by former US Representative Maury Maverick, then working for the Smaller War Plants Corporation, in a March 30, 1944 memo banning "gobbledygook language".[2] It was a reaction to his frustration with the "CONVOLUTED LANGUAGE OF BUREAUCRATS."[3] He made up the word as an onomatopoeic imitation of a turkey's gobble
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobbledygook

LANGUE DE BOIS is the French term for the special language that was spoken and written by Communist leaders and functionaries. IT IS HARD TO DEFINE BUT EASY TO RECOGNIZE. It is simultaneously high-flown and supremely dull; it never descends to particulars; it confuses abstract aspiration with actual achievement; it is terminally humorless; it disguises obvious lies, and tries to preclude any opposition, by resort to pompous moral banalities and abstractions. It acts almost instantly on the mind as a general anesthetic, but without the soothing element of sleep.
It did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Politicians are by nature inclined to use it when in a tight corner, as are bureaucrats and senior executives. But in my opinion, this year’s Brezhnev Prize for langue de bois ought to be awarded forthwith to Dr. Bernard Kouchner, France’s foreign minister (and one of the founders of Medecins Sans Frontieres), for his article “For Greece, for Europe.” It was published in the French newspaper Liberation on May 10.
The question that arises as soon as one starts to read is whether the words used in it correspond to any actual thoughts. Is there anyone who, within the fastness of his own skull, actually thinks like this? Or is it all merely a performance, an act? I think it must be the latter; if the former, only a Frankenstein’s monster would not go mad with boredom with his own cerebration.
A few quotations will be enough to establish the point:
"Let us not give in to facile anxiety-provoking, declinist speeches, and looks things in the face. This crisis demonstrates only one thing: that we have need of Europe more than ever. Europe was born in crisis and will emerge stronger from this ordeal. Of this I am certain …"
These are not the worlds of a politician cornered by a journalist who has asked a difficult and awkward question, who is trying to buy time by hiding behind vague generalities. They are the considered words of a senior politician who is voluntarily committing them to print.
The article goes from bad to worse:
"We are motivated by a very simple and very strong conviction: to help Greece today is to protect our common currency but also to defend the incomes and the work of the French people tomorrow. Over and above the debates among the twenty-seven states, the solidarity of Europeans is total."
This is a combination of MAGICAL THINKING — THAT SOMEHOW TO WISH A THING, SUCH AS THE FUTURE PROSPERITY OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE, IS AUTOMATICALLY TO BRING IT ABOUT — AND LYING, DRESSED UP IN THE MOST WOODEN OF WOODEN TERMS. What could the total solidarity of Europeans mean? There isn’t even total solidarity in a small village, let alone across twenty-seven countries. Many Germans now despise the Greeks and many Greeks hate the Germans. The only total solidarity to be found is probably among the bureaucrats of Brussels who know on which side of every question their expenses claims are signed.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/langue-de-bois-the-newspeak-dic...