Joe Biden and the Democratic Family at the D.N.C.

“We’re family,” Joe Biden said, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, on Wednesday night, as he described the relationship that he and his wife, Jill, had built with the Obamas in the eight years since he accepted his Party’s Vice-Presidential nomination. In that time, he said, Barack Obama had become “one of the finest Presidents we have ever had” and also his friend. “He has become a brother to Jill and me. And Michelle? I don’t know where you are, kid, but you’re incredible.” He smiled and pointed with both hands to where he thought she might be sitting, in the boxes above a crowd that was cheering wildly—for Joe, for Michelle, for a moment in a fractious Convention which seemed to be everything it ought to be.

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