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"    CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 Lately it seems like those who remember Jimmy Carter best are Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. And they&amp;#039;d like the rest of the country to remember him they way they do, too.  Georgia delegate Quentin T. Howell knows how that is. Quentin T. Howell, 36, grew up listening to talk radio \u2014 and in middle Georgia, conservative talk radio was the only kind of talk radio. A military man, a small-business owner and candidate for the Georgia House, except for a few unexpected turns Howell might well have been in Tampa, elbowing Artur Davis right off the platform. &amp;quot;Over years of listening to Georgia talk-show hosts run down Carter, I began to think the man wasn&amp;#039;t that good.&amp;quot; But then Howell&amp;#039;s horizons began to broaden. He took a trip to Atlanta, and &amp;quot;I started reading some of his quotes. He was a naval man like me, he was a nuclear officer,&amp;quot; Howell explained. &amp;quot;The man wasn&amp;#039;t just intelligent, he was brilliant. He started thinking out of the box in 1976, ways we aren&amp;#039;t even thinking today, like solar panels and sustainable energy.&amp;quot; Carter addressed the Democratic National Convention via video on Tuesday night, appearing to delegates gathered at Time Warner Cable Arena from a massive screen above the podium. Even as Paul Ryan told campaign audiences that &amp;quot;When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days,&amp;quot; the 39th president praised President Barack Obama&amp;#039;s accomplishments on issues from health-care reform to the combat engagement draw-down in Iraq despite &amp;quot;bitter, unyielding, in fact unprecedented partisan opposition.&amp;quot; Until a few years ago, delegate Sarah Mincey Hunt taught social studies and language arts to Macon seventh-graders. Every February, they&amp;#039;d sent the former president letters for Presidents Day. Each year she&amp;#039;s taken her students to visit Carter&amp;#039;s home in Plains. &amp;quot;They had never been to the country, never experienced a farm. I took them to the church where he taught Sunday school,&amp;quot; said Hunt. Once they were lucky, and Carter was home when they came to call. &amp;quot;He did greet the children,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;The children were talking about it for months!&amp;quot; Howell also understands the impact a personal encounter with Carter can have. In 2000, Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, addressed the Georgia delegation. &amp;quot;The humility that they had,&amp;quot; he marvels. Paul Bronson was yet to be born when Jimmy Carter last accepted his party&amp;#039;s nomination for president. Bronson sat in the stands on Tuesday night, eagerly anticipating Carter&amp;#039;s remarks. &amp;quot;Expectation is a motivating word,&amp;quot; explained Bronson. &amp;quot;It tells us where we are, where we&amp;#039;ve been, where we&amp;#039;re going.&amp;quot; For the Georgia delegation, says Bronson, a teacher, member of the Georgia National Guard and a 2011 candidate for mayor of Macon, their connection to Carter gives their participation in this convention an extra dimension. &amp;quot;Just the mere fact that we have a part of history where we are still making history is a beautiful thing.&amp;quot; Carter&amp;#039;s is &amp;quot;a tale of courage and stick-to-itiveness,&amp;quot; for all Americans, says Howell. &amp;quot;No matter what they say, he&amp;#039;s a leader and an example for those of us who take the time to listen.&amp;quot; FOLLOW MORE LIVE COVERAGE FROM CHARLOTTE ALL WEEK LONG RIGHT HERE AND WITH @ESQPOLITICS ON TWITTER &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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