Obama paints Rep. Ryan as the GOP face for 2012

McClatchy reports:

Eager to start campaigning for re-election next year, President Barack Obama isn’t waiting for the Republican Party to nominate a rival. He's running against Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

Obama professes to like Ryan, the 41-year-old chairman of the House Budget Committee. But in increasingly personal and pointed terms, Obama is attacking Ryan as the face of a Republican Party that he says would use the government's debt crisis to turn America in a radical new direction.

That will help the entitlement problem!