Barack Obama Vs. Hillary Clinton

I tried to refrain, but the more I think about it, the less sense it makes to me. I'm sure many people have thought this through and questioned the idea of having a woman for president or an african american for president. Personally, I don't care either way. Here is where the problem occurs.

Barack is an African American (could possibly make history).
Hillary is a woman (could possibly make history).
Both are Democrats.

Why are they not running together? I simply can't understand why these two haven't gotten together to ensure a victory. So far, these are some of the problems I see with these two running against each other.

1. Splitting the Democratic vote. Black women are a toss up because now they have to decide whether to vote for the black guy or the woman. The choice would be easy if they ran together.

2. At this point only 1 of them can possibly make history, instead of one person running as VP and both making history. There has never been a black man or woman VP, unless I missed a few history classes.

What geniuses thought this great plan up. If they don't get together, both of them are probably going to lose this thing. I won't say who I'm voting for, but it's not either of these two. In fact, I haven't found a candidate that I actually like or can relate to. My personal voting preference is non-partisan because I actually like to consider the facts and not what party someone is associated with.

Personally, I don't care who wins because I think it will be a good race with both of them losing in the end to a Republican nobody, or at least a Republican that I haven't heard of.

Someone send Barack and Hillary a memo and tell one of them to suck it up, take a VP position and make history.