President George W Bush and his friends,

and how they have fared in office.


The illustrators forDer Spiegel's cover pages have said it better than I could ever



In 2002:

In 2008:

Note that the US Embassy in Berlin ordered 33 copies of the 2002 cover page (in poster form) for the White House. Der Spiegel notes that there has been no word yet as to whether orders have been (or will be) placed for the 2008 version of the cover page.