Paul Ryan's Playing Dumb Again

One hardly knows what to say.

"The question is, is [President Obama] going to go out on the campaign trail and start campaigning against us again like he has been since the election?" [Paul] Ryan said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."...

"Look, I ran against him, so we have different views. But at least we started talking. This is the first time I ever had a conversation like that with him. So I think that's a good, constructive start. The question is, is there follow through? The question is, does the campaign start back up or does the engagement continue in a real, constructive and promising way? I don't know the answer to that question. Time will tell."

Ryan seems to remember that he is a politician, and seems to recall having run against the President in a recent election. I assume he also recalls losing that election. But is he simply pretending to be stupid or does he sincerely not understand that he and the President are in different political parties, and that he is presently campaigning against the President's agenda?