I assume it would be news if McCain shared an office with Timothy McVeigh for three years....or three minutes.
If McCain sneezed in McVeigh’s direction it would be news.
BTW, who is “Barack J Obama”?
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22barack+j+obama%22&hl=en&sa=N
http://web.archive.org/web/20011017072106/ednet.rvc.cc.il.us/~PeterR/ST/ilstsen.htm