Chalk this up to yet another gaffe since he was off teleprompter:
Don't think it's a gaffe? This is how the sentinels at the establishment MSM jumped into action: MSNBC's Chuck Todd: How Will Obama Team Spin Obama Referendum "Gaffe"?
Stewardship? He's doing about as well as Denethor Steward of Gondor and in the electoral sense will meet the same fate.