Like he was at Gettysburg, there were times in this speech—when he said “Our better angels” and “On the wings of eagles”—when he seemed to me above all of it and above all of us. The photo on the header is not crystal sharp, it's slightly gauzy, artifact of screen-shotting it, but that is how Joe Biden sounds to me sometimes. He has a soft serenity about him and is at peace with himself. He would have projected that above-it-all-ness even if this was a concession speech, I think.