Here is Carmen Dell’ Orefice, the famous “first supermodel” who Bernie Madoff reportedly broke. She trusted millions of dollars in his presumed Ponzi scheme, only to have it allegedly ripped away by an even richer billionaire.
Carmen Dell’ Orefice
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There is a certain irony to the Madoff fund collapse, which is that we are given name after name of rich liberal millionaires who lost some money. That is unfortunate news for sure, but what about the rest of us little guys?
On the verge of what some economists are fearing, a Great Obama Depression, the little guys are losing their shirts as well and we have a lot smaller shirts. Sure, our average investment portfolios haven’t completely gone under yet like Madoff’s millionaires, but the average American has lost half our net worth since Obama was elected, whether that is the value of our homes, our retirement accounts and pensions, or our invested savings. Who wouldn’t trade places with Carmen Dell’Orefice who, after all, still has a lucrative career?
Maddeningly it is these same rich liberal millionaires who primarily funded the Barack Obama candidacy. Now that The Wizard’s curtain has been pulled away, we are beginning to understand that Barack Obama’s policies are bad for everyday Americans. Socialism makes everyone poorer, including Madoff’s supermodel, Carmen Dell Orefice
So let’s feel sorry for Carmen Dell’Orefice as the Obama Justice Department throws the book at Madoff. He may want us to believe that such grandstanding cures the financial collapse, but the broke voters know better.
Biographically, the latest impoverished Madoff supermodel was born June 3, 1931. At 71 years old, she still promotes products in ads for Target and Rollex, and models for fashion magazines like Vogue. So she hasn’t lost her job, like almost 10% of Americans faring under Obama’s economic policies. She was 15 years old when she first posed for Vogue, almost instantly establishing her status as the world’s first supermodel and launching a long successful career that continues today.
Her poignant quote about Bernard Madoff is “I am accepting that what I was experiencing was a projection of a person who wasn’t there.�
See more pictures of Carmen Dell’Orefice below and also here and here.
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March 6th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
So, the guy who has been president for what–two months?–it is all his fault.
MCCAIN, you must think people are totally brain dead and stupid.
Hey! You are, of course, right.
It will be interesting to see what you say if things turn around.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:22 am
I have to second what Arch has said. Blaming Obama for our current economic crisis is like blaming an EMT for the gun shot wound he is treating. For 8 long years this nation entrusted the republicans to lead us in a positive direction and where has it gotten us? Greed, deregulation, and absolutely inane decision making have put us, and by ripple effect- THE WORLD, in the precarious position we find ourselves in today. This nation is ready for a change. This nation NEEDS a change. To continue my analogy- I see republicans, like you McCain, throwing verbal stones at the very people who are racing in to apply direct pressure to this wounded nation. I see the importance of tending to the spine of our financial system- the banks and those who insure the banks. I see the point of stopping the arterial bleeding of the wounded auto industry. These things have been done. That said, I don’t believe that the whole “Take care of the richest among us and the rest will all fall into place.” approach saves the patient. I’m sick of it! I’m sick of that way of thinking. I’m sick of people who appear to think that inspiring and rewarding greed, instilling fear in the masses, and war mongering is a fine way to way to run this country. CLEARLY it isn’t and that’s why the stimulus package was so important. I believe it will help. I believe this approach is a positive step towards better days.
It’s time for hope, hard work, and the most inventive of thinkers to rule the day. That’s the foundation this nation was built on and that’s the stuff that will get us back on our feet. It’s time for people like YOU to sit down and keep quiet. You’ve had your chance. You’ve had your say. You blew it- but hopefully like Harry Whittington, the man Dick Cheney shot in the face, this nation will one day see a full recovery. I have the utmost faith in President Obama’s ability to patch things up and move this nation in a healthy and prosperous direction. I just hope that the nay saying human land mines out there, I don’t have to name names, do not obstruct his path.
March 8th, 2009 at 9:52 am
lol @ “Great Obama Depression”
How about, “The Great Bush Depression”?
Perhaps combine the words… “The Great DeBushion”
Or even just, “Bush-you-idiot”
That last one has a ring to it.
May 16th, 2009 at 10:04 am
I have just read this article. WHAT A PIECE OF CROCK.Someone should inform the writer(of this sophomoric story)that things can not nor could they get any worse. I suppose, the writer would equate, Bush as the best President ever. The President, is doing Bush’s housework. I might add, that he (President Obama) and his cabinet have taken on more in a few months, than Bush/Cheney/Rice, have done in 8 years. FIN