Alan Keyes was the guest on several episodes of Gordon Klingenschmitt’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program this week, where he asserted that it was “insane” for America to ever have elected President Obama.

On Tuesday’s program, Klingenschmitt and Keyes, who was Obama’s Republican opponent in the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois, discussed the incident earlier this month in which Iran briefly detained and quickly released several U.S. Navy sailors who had inadvertently crossed into Iranian waters due to mechanical problems, with Keyes blasting Obama for supposedly deliberately weakening America and its military because he hates this nation.

“Obama has essentially turned us into a kind of footstool for these people,” he stated. “They despise us and no longer believe that we have the will to use such power as we have. And the second thing, sadly, is I think Obama has actually let our power deteriorate to a point where, in terms of the actual wherewithal to deal with some of these situations, he’s let it slide. And he’s also been a person who, in his rules of engagement and other activities, has done what seems prone to do; he’s attacked the people who are supposed to defend us, he’s demoralized the soldiers who are responsible for defending us.”

“He has actually behaved as what I called him years ago,” Keyes concluded. “He’s the first anti-American ever to occupy the White House and it was insane to put him there!”