Super Delegates - No Capes please.

So I'm becoming increasingly interested in the Democratic convention. Living in Ohio, (and traveling to Texas tomorrow) this is gonna be interesting. Then they start talking about these Super Delegates on TV. Whu-huh?

Here's a first, I'm snagging the whole wiki definition:

"Superdelegate" is an informal term for some of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention, the quadrennial convention of the United States Democratic Party.
Unlike most convention delegates, the superdelegates are not selected based on the party primaries and caucuses in each U.S. state. Instead, the superdelegates are seated automatically, based solely on their status as current or former elected officeholders and party officials. They are free to support any candidate for the nomination.
The Democratic Party rules do not use the term "superdelegate". The formal designation (in Rule 9.A) is "unpledged party leader and elected official delegates".[1] In addition to these unpledged "PLEO" delegates, the state parties choose other unpledged delegates (Rule 9.B) and pledged PLEO delegates (Rule 9.C).[1] This article discusses only the unpledged PLEO delegates.
The Republican Party also seats some party officials as delegates without regard to primary or caucus results, but the term "superdelegate" is most commonly applied only in the Democratic Party.
At the 2008 Democratic National Convention the superdelegates will make up approximately one-fifth of the total number of delegates. The unforeseen and unprecedented closeness of the race between the leading contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama following Super Tuesday has focused attention on the potential role of the superdelegates in selecting the Democratic nominee, inasmuch as in the aggregate they could come to be kingmakers to a degree not seen in previous election cycles.[2] Such an outcome would result in the first brokered convention since 1952.

So I know I said in my first post that I'd boot any comments that came from perpetuating someone's agenda... so don't do that. But I'd like some opinions.

Does it seem weird that a "delegate" system that was installed to vote for a nation that didn't have a quick way to vote instantaneously across the country... would then be modified to further limit the actual validity of the general popular vote?

Lemme know please!!!