Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Durbin embraces disgraced Rahm. Clinton watches.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Durbin embraces disgraced Rahm. Clinton watches.:

Durbin embraces disgraced Rahm. Clinton watches.

Durbin claims Rahm has "visible support" in the black community. He knows this from having attended a recent meeting. (AP)

Sen. Dick Durbin is the only Democrat in town willing to be seen within 10 yards of disgraced Mayor Rahm Emanuel. In an interview on Wednesday, Durbin claimed that Rahm still maintains significant support in the city and particularly in the black community, despite his role in covering up the police killing of Laquan McDonald. How Durbin knows this or how he has the nerve to speak for the black community is beyond me. I'm guessing he read Laura Washington's defense of Rahm in the Sun-Times.

In his attempt to bail out the mayor, Durbin blames most of Rahm's troubles on his predecessor, Daley.

“I don’t question that there are things that happened under the mayor’s watch that have caused problems for him that he will still have to address,” Durbin said. “Those sorts of things are real and on his watch. But most of the things he’s facing are left over.”

That's some stretch. 

Seeing Durbin and Emanuel posing together takes me back to another Durbin Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Durbin embraces disgraced Rahm. Clinton watches.: